Room is about a boy and his mother being held captive and confined into a room. Once they escape, facing the real world will be their greatest challenge. Brie Larson delivers a remarkable performance as "Ma." This is one of the best movies of 2015 in my mind.
Another Visual Masterpiece from Guillermo del Toro
on February 26, 2016
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Crimson Peak is a great recommendation if you're into the gothic culture, a fan of Guillermo's work, or love the use of practical effects and melding them with CGI, rather than rely heavily on CGI.
A Great Movie dealing with the 2008 Housing Crisis
on February 26, 2016
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99 Homes is a movie dealing with the aftermath of the 2008 housing crisis. As a result, people who couldn't make mortgage payments or haven't been making mortgage payments were being evicted from their homes. Micheal Shannon, who is the ruthless real estate broker in this movie, delivers a convincing performance. Andrew Garfield, who gets evicted by Michael Shannon's character in the beginning of the movie and eventually works for him, performs well and has great chemistry with Shannon. A well recommended movie but it will make your gears grind.
The Assassin is a foreign film from Taiwan that features spectacular cinematography and great costume design that captures 8th century China. The story follows a woman who gets exiled from her clan and gets taken in by a nun to be trained to become an assassin. From there she goes on a mission to kill her former fiancé, the leader of her former clan.
Sideways focuses on a man named Miles who is a middle school teacher, a failed author, is in a mid-life crisis. He goes with his best friend to Wine Country for a week to celebrate his friend's marriage as a week-long bachelor party. It's a well written movie and Paul Giamatti delivers a fantastic performance as the depressing Miles.
The World's End is the epic third installment into the Cornetto Trilogy (Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz being the first two movies). The only thing that connects this movie from the other two is that at a certain point of the movie they eat a British ice cream called Cornetto. The movie deals with a guy who tells a story in a rehab focus group about a time where he and his friends long ago went to try and journey through twelve bars and drink a pint of beer in each bar in one night. Although he remembers that night and how good it was, it still bothered him that he never completed the journey. From that point, the movie revolves around him getting the old gang back together and finally complete the journey. Edgar Wright is brilliant comedic writer. He his probably hands down the best as of now. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost once again delivers in the characters they play.
Role Models is about two guys who work at a energy drink company and end up getting into trouble. Once in court, they have two options: go to jail or volunteer at a big brother/little brother organization in which they spend time with two kids. Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott have good chemistry with each other and also with the kids they hang out with. Plenty of laughs to be had in this hour and a half comedy.
Chi-Raq, another nickname given to Chicago because of the end result of gun violence...death. From 2001 to 2015, more people have died in Chicago due to gun violence than Americans that have died in both the Afgan and the Iraq wars put together. The movie's plot surrounds itself based on an old Greek story dealing with the Spartans and the Trojans killing one another in a senseless war. The way the main protagonist, Lyssistrada, tries and make the men from both factions to stop fighting and end the violence is for all women to deny their men intercourse. Spike Lee holds no bars in this movie by taking on the NRA, local and federal government, and most of all the people causing the violence in the streets. Some people might consider this movie too preachy, but me personally I loved the preachiness in the movie and it's a shame that not enough movies do it and execute it well.
Bridge of Spies is a great Cold War espionage film. Steven Spielberg once again proves that he can put people in seats and wowes his audience. Tom Hanks in his lead role was a remarkable performance all due to great writing by Matt Charman and the Coen Brothers.