Directed by William Eubank The Signal is a tough nut to crack, a modest little science fiction film that aims to keep you guessing. Despite that maze it sets up, the film opens on a surprisingly charming, sensitive scene involving Nic (Brenton Thwaites), physically handicapped, giving a dollar to a young boy sitting longingly beside … Continue reading The Signal (2014)
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Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Directed by Peyton Reed Okay, my first complaint with Ant-Man and the Wasp has nothing to do with the actual movie. Using moviepass, I had to pay surge pricing for a movie that had six people in attendance. It was also late, I had been traveling all day, and the point is that I probably didn't give … Continue reading Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Passengers (2016)
Directed by Morten Tyldum There's a home run spike going on in baseball these days, which has been a bit unexpected because of the offensive drought that spanned most of a decade as the league cleaned out most or all of the performance enhancing drug users that defined the early 00's. Whereas you once had … Continue reading Passengers (2016)
Contagion (2011)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh Contagion is an attempt at deadly realism, tracking a disease with about a 25% mortality rate over the course of a few months and through several different continents. The film jumps between countries and characters, tracking those affected and those responsible for coming up with a cure to a virus which … Continue reading Contagion (2011)
Mystic River (2003)
Directed by Clint Eastwood Mystic River tries to tell you that the past never really dies. This is a film about a working class neighborhood in Boston in which the three central characters are deeply haunted by a moment from their childhood. The story opens with this tragic memory before jumping multiple decades into the … Continue reading Mystic River (2003)