MATT’S REVIEW Room for another Nomination? In Room, not to be confused with the laughably bad cult classic the Room (2003), Brie Larson plays Joy, mother to young son Jack (Jacob Tremblay). Daily she tries to teach her son about the world around them. Only twist is the two are being held captive in a […]
MATT’S REVIEW Some days you eat the bear, and some days, the bear eats you. In the Revenant Leonardo DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass a frontiersman and fur trader who is mauled by a bear and left for dead by his group. Glass makes a painful journey across miles of frozen tundra to rejoin his group […]
MATT’S REVIEW Fifty Shades of Bad Late Night Cinemax In Fifty Shades of Grey Dakota Johnson plays Anastasia a literature student who happens across Billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Doran). As their relationship builds she becomes aware of Christian’s “dark” sexual tendencies. Okay, I realize I miss the age and gender demographic for this one. This […]
MATT’S REVIEW A Stick of Dynamite with a long fuse. The Hateful Eight stars a brilliantly selected cast of character directed by the incomparable Quentin Tarantino. Kurt Russell plays John Ruth, a bounty hunter transporting Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to hang, traveling via stagecoach thru the frozen tundra of frontier Wyoming. Along the […]
MATT’S REVIEW Unexpected Big Laughs, not short on great on screen talent. In the Big Short director Adam McKay directs a very talented ensemble cast of characters based on the book by Michael Lewis. In which Jared Vennett, played by Ryan Gosling narrates, highlighting the key players of the events leading up to the housing […]
MATT’S REVIEW The Worst Thing to Happen to Hawaii Since Pearl Harbor. Dear Cameron Crowe, I am writing you having recently rented your film Aloha. When I learned of it’s phenomenal cast of characters, Bradley Cooper, Bill Murray, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Alec Baldwin and Danny McBride; with you at the writing AND directing helm […]
MATT’S REVIEW A Ted Too Far In Ted 2 we rejoin John (Mark Wahlburg) and his foul mouth, pot smoking, fast talking lovable teddy bear Ted, voiced by Seth Mcfarland. In this misadventure, Ted has recently married girlfriend Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) and quickly they realize that their relationship is not exactly better for it. In […]
MATT’S REVIEW Trainwreck Delivers a Full Force, Crushingly Funny Comedy In Trainwreck, (2015) Amy Schumer plays Amy (convenient), a 30 something serial dater with a strong opposition to commitment. She works as a writer for a men’s magazine S’nuff, a playoff magazines like Stuff or Maxim. Her hard drinking, hard partying lifestyle is interrupted when […]
MATT’S REVIEW The Hollywood Selfie that is Entourage is Back, and Better than ever. The boys are back in town! Vinny, Drama, Turtle, Eric and Ari pick up right where the hit HBO series left off; with a handful of new colorful characters and a whole town full of Hollywood cameos. All the original cast […]
MATT’S REVIEW A Respectfully done Biopic that Moves at the Pace of its Subject. In The Theory of Everything Eddie Redmayne plays the brilliant scientist Stephen Hawking. The story follows Hawking from his early days at Cambridge, where he meets Jane (Felicity Jones). From there the movie chronicles their life together as well has his […]
MATT’S REVIEW Painfully Inspiring Masterpiece, Whiplash will leave its mark on you. In Whiplash, Miles Teller plays Andrew, a freshman at a very prestigious and exclusive music program in New York. His talent and work ethic gets him noticed by Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) who invites him to be part of the schools award winning jazz […]
MATT’S REVIEW Selma: A Very Important Film about a very important bit of History In Selma David Oyelowo portraits the legendary historical figure Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The story joins Dr. King from his Noble Peace Prize award presentation in Oslo Norway in 1965 through his famous march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama. The […]
MATT’S REVIEW The Conjuring meets The Shinning In The Babadook, Essie Davis plays Amelia, a woman who is widowed in a horrible car accident the night she was to have her first child. She was in the car with her husband in route to the hospital. Cut to seven years later and she is living […]
MATT’S REVIEW A Beautiful Mind meets The Social Network, A Brilliant Masterpiece In The Imitation game Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, the real life man responsible for cracking the Natzi Enigma machine. The Enigma machine was a code encrypting device that helped the Natzis communicate with what was then known as an unbreakable code. Alan […]
MATT’S REVIEW All Hat No Cattle In Blackhat, Chris Hemsworth plays Nicholas Hathaway, a notorious computer hacker who is furloughed from a prison sentence to help the American and Chinese government stop a hacker. The hacker they are in pursuit of blows up a Chinese nuclear power plant by tapping into the cooling system and […]
MATT’S REVIEW The Tedious Process of Foxcatching. In Foxcatcher Channing Tatum plays real life Olympic gold medal winning wrestler, Mark Schultz. In the early 80’s, Mark is hired by Billionaire John Du Ponte (Steve Carrell) to train him and a team of Olympic hopefuls for the upcoming summer games. John’s ulterior motive is to hire […]
MATT’S REVIEW Seth Rogen and James Franco in the Road to North Korea In the Interview James Franco plays Dave Skylark, an over the top Geraldo Rivera style tabloid television journalist. Always by his side is his best friend and producer Aaron Rapaport played by Seth Rogen. While very successful in there own style of […]
