Film Review: Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation Cruise And Co. Do The Impossible: Make The Stiff Spy Series Silly Fun Again For the last 20 years, Paramount Pictures has thrown a tremendous amount of money and a wealth of talent in writing (David Koepp, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Aug 06, 2015 Read More Not a shot from the movie
Film Review: Court Probing Indian Drama Picks Judicial System Apart Piece By Piece In the middle of an impassioned performance in a poor neighborhood of Mumbai, a 65-year-old folk singer is arrested. Days earlier, an impoverished [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 30, 2015 Read More “Regarding this recess. ... Will there be swing sets?”
Film Review: Ant-Man Marvel Gets Small For Latest Addition To Its Cinematic Universe Fanboys and fangirls can argue for all eternity over which publisher has the better lineup of superheroes and supervillains. Are you a Marvel [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 23, 2015 Read More
Film Review: Trainwreck Judd Apatow + Amy Schumer = Love Judd Apatow has solidified his reputation in Hollywood by directing a string of appealingly raunchy, late-in-life coming-of-age comedies (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 16, 2015 Read More Nothing starts an evening right like a couple of Boilermakers.
Film Review: Testament Of Youth Bbc Drama Looks At World War I Through A Darker Lens Though it’s doubtful Testament of Youth, the memoir by British author and noted pacifist Vera Brittain, has as much impact today as it [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 09, 2015 Read More “Goodbye. Good luck. ... Enjoy your first year at Hogwarts!”
Film Review: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl Teenage Dramedy Avoids Cliché, But Not Sympathy Young-adult novels continue to drive the publishing industry, keeping it financially solvent even as the very concept of “reading” crumbles into the emoji-filled [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 02, 2015 Read More Earl and me (not pictured: dying girl)
Film Review: Inside Out Pixar’s Emotional New Fantasy Has All The Feels Like a craps player on the hottest streak Vegas has ever seen, Pixar has cranked out the latest in its unbroken string of [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 25, 2015 Read More Can you guess which emotion is which?
Film Review: The Connection French Crime Film Makes Connection To Classic American Gangster Sagas Of Yesteryear We can’t talk about the gritty new crime film starring Jean Dujardin (Academy Award winner for The Artist) without mentioning that it’s French. [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 18, 2015 Read More “ ... It’s the tie
Film Review: Saint Laurent French Biopic About Famed Fashion Designer Gives Us Glorious Surface, Poor Structure Director Jalil Lespert’s 2014 biopic Yves Saint Laurent took a look at the life of the famed French designer (as played by Pierre [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 11, 2015 Read More “Groovy
Film Review: Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock And Roll Musical Documentary Charts The Sounds Of Love And War When you think of great rock and roll cities, places with distinctive histories and sounds, you might name Detroit or Philadelphia or San [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 04, 2015 Read More Rock and roll sounds so much better with matching suits.
