LIFE OF CRIME * *
Starring Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey, Isla Fisher and Tim Robbins. Written for the screen and directed by Daniel Schechter.
Monthly Archives: August 2014
BOFCA REPERTORY PODCAST: SEPTEMBER 2014
Talking with fellow Boston Online Film Critics Association members Bob Chipman and Steve Head about September’s repertory film offerings — including a tribute to Robin Williams, a visit from William Friedkin, and the movie Whoopi Goldberg wishes you would forget. – BOFCA, 08/30/2014
THE NOVEMBER MAN
THE NOVEMBER MAN * * 1 / 2
Starring Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko, Will Patton and Bill Smitrovich. Screenplay by Michael Finch and Karl Gajdusek. Directed by Roger Donaldson.
SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR
SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR * 1 / 2
Starring Mickey Rourke, Josh Brolin, Jessica Alba, Eva Green and Bruce Willis. Screenplay by Frank Miller. Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller.
THE EXPENDABLES 3
THE EXPENDABLES 3 * 1 / 2
Starring Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham and Harrison Ford. Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone, Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt. Directed by Patrick Hughes.
8 1/2
“Guido screws his annoying mistress and hides from his financiers, drifting away mid-conversation into baroque childhood reveries, mostly sexual in nature. The entire time, hundreds labor away building the set for his still-unwritten opus – a giant phallic spaceship that’s going nowhere. Yes, the central visual metaphor here is an enormous, useless cock.” – Movie Mezzanine, 08/06/2014
CALVARY
“What follows is McDonagh’s rotted-out take on the Stations of the Cross, explicitly positioned in the wake of the Catholic Church’s molestation cover-ups and the Wall Street financial crisis, with Gleeson tending to his broke, wildly dysfunctional flock as he slouches towards Golgotha. Calvary is a strange film, often hilarious but always heavy and forlorn.” – Movie Mezzanine, 08/06/2014
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY * * *
Starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel. Screenplay by Nicole Pearlman and James Gunn. Directed by James Gunn.
