HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT * * * *
Starring Arielle Holmes, Caleb Landry Jones, Buddy Duress, Necro and Elenore Hendricks. Screenplay by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie. Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie.
JURASSIC WORLD
JURASSIC WORLD * *
Starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson and Vincent D’Onofrio. Screenplay by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow. Directed by Colin Trevorrow.
LIVE FROM NEW YORK!
“This pleasant, spectacularly uninformative documentary celebrates a venerable television institution that already spends quite enough time celebrating itself, thank you very much. You won’t find any of the debauchery that’s become part of the program’s legend. Cocaine, recently credited by Tina Fey as the show’s original Executive Producer, doesn’t even merit a cameo.” – Movie Mezzanine, 06/12/2015
JACKIE BROWN: A BELATED APPRECIATION
“On second viewing I was able to see Jackie Brown for the movie it is, instead of the movie I’d wanted it to be. It’s slow, it’s sad and it’s very funny in ways that don’t really revolve around punchlines. It’s about characters who have been around the block one too many times and they’re exhausted, full of dreams deferred, just trying to scrape by.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 06/04/2015
RESULTS
RESULTS * * * 1 / 2
Starring Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi and Anthony Michael Hall. Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski.
ALOHA
“It’s a Cameron Crowe movie; full of reportorial detail, foolhardy young lovers and heartsick, jingling-guitar pop songs on the obsessively curated soundtrack. It’s also weirdly ersatz and clangy. With every film, Crowe’s formula seems to come more increasingly unhinged from any recognizable reality. Now his movies seem to take place on Mars.” – Movie Mezzanine, 05/29/2015
SPOILERPIECE THEATRE #46: SAN ANDREAS, SAINT LAURENT AND SLOW WEST
Sat in with fellow Boston Online Film Critics Association members Kris Jenson and Evan Crean to talk spoilers about three new releases. Nice things were said about two of them. We also bitched a bit about Me and Earl and the Dying Girl because we couldn’t help it. – Spoilerpiece Theatre, 05/29/2015
TOMORROWLAND
TOMORROWLAND * * *
Starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy, Tim McGraw and Hugh Laurie. Screenplay by Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird. Directed by Brad Bird.
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD * * * *
Starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Zoe Kravitz and Hugh Keays-Byrne. Screenplay by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris. Directed by George Miller.
ABSOLUTION
“I don’t know if you’ve been keeping up with Steven Seagal lately, but it’s fun checking in every now and again in that mean way that the Germans have a word for, because the dude got really fat. Like, he’s getting Brando heavy. Filmmakers go to great lengths to not make him move around much. This is kind of a problem when you’re an action star.” – Movie Mezzanine, 05/14/2015
SPLICED PERSONALITY 