Director Jon M Chu’s 2010 largely unrelated Step Up dance movie sequel, ‘based on characters’ from the surprise 2006 dance film hit, is bright and sexy enough, reasonably entertaining and overall just about OK. It stars Adam G Sevani […]
Hey, guys, is this really the best you can do? Returning director Jon M Chu’s 2010 more or less totally unrelated Step Up second sequel, ‘based on characters’ from the 2006 and 2008 dance film hits, is […]
Philip Roth’s novel won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998 but you would never know why from this earnest, sincere and well meaning but ponderous and struggling 2016 drama from Ewan McGregor in his […]
The 1959 American legal drama film The Young Philadelphians is based on the 1956 novel The Philadelphian by Richard P Powell, and stars Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Robert Vaughn and Alexis Smith. Director Vincent Sherman’s soapy 1959 novel-to-film transfer The Young Philadelphians is trashy but […]
When their beloved high-school basketball coach dies, five pretty dim, randy and unfit American middle-aged blokes reunite for the funeral and then plan a Fourth of July holiday weekend with their families. A lot of […]
It’s the summer of love in 1969. Elliot Teichberg – aka the original source book author Elliot Tiber – is a struggling young gay interior designer working at his parents’ rundown motel in up-state New […]
Director Tony Scott relentlessly ensures that his remake of the classic 1974 heist thriller The Taking of Pelham 123 is slick, tense, fast moving and flashy. Based on the novel by John Godey, it is all about […]
Susbscribe to our awesome Blog Feed or Comments Feed