[yasr_overall_rating] Since the 1980s, China’s stratospheric economic rise has lifted millions out of poverty and into the global middle class. This, among many other things, has led to Chinese moviegoers on pace to comprise the biggest market for film consumption by 2019. As globalization continues to work its familiar magic, many American corporations – …
Movie Review: “Tracktown” Is Plumb Marigold’s Day Off
[yasr_overall_rating] A young, talented, and lonely long-distance runner twists her ankle as she prepares for the Olympic Trials and must do something she’s never done before: take a day off.
Movie Review: “The Dark Tapes” Is A “Paranormal Activity” Clone That Misses The Mark
[yasr_overall_rating] A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.
Movie Review: “Child Eater” Makes Horror Fun Again
[yasr_overall_rating] A simple night of babysitting takes a horrifying turn when Helen realizes the boogeyman really is in little Lucas’ closet.
Movie Review: “The Ottoman Lieutenant” Is A One Trick Pony
[yasr_overall_rating] “The Ottoman Lieutenant” is a love story between an idealistic American nurse and a Turkish officer in World War I.
Movie Review: “Lost In Florence” Is An Exercise In Jocular Wish Fulfillment
[yasr_overall_rating] Eric Lombard is a heartbroken former college football star who gets involved in a dangerous Florentine sport and a local woman, Stefania, while visiting his cousin Anna, who lives in Italy and teaches the Italian language to foreigners.
Movie Review: “Strad Style” Is A Compelling Portrait Of An Eccentric
[yasr_overall_rating] A documentary about a backwoods dreamer from Ohio with an obsession for ‘Stradivari’ and all things violin, who, through the magic of social media, convinces a famous European concert violinist that he can make a copy of the most famous and valuable violin in the world. Fighting time, poverty, and most of all …
Movie Review: Southwestern Gothic Is The Real Star Of “The Hollow Point”
[yasr_overall_rating] A new sheriff of a small town along the U.S. & Mexico border investigates a drug cartel deal that went horribly wrong.
Movie Review: “Cents” Is A Charming Coming-of-Age Film
[yasr_overall_rating] Sammy, an uncommonly smart twelve-year-old girl, uses her gift for mathematics and enlists her frenemies to revamp the school penny drive into a major moneymaking operation.