DRAMA
RYAN: I’m glad to be joined by Tina Eghbali for this review – This movie is so powerful and intelligent. It’s a drama that plays like a crime thriller – so intense it felt more like a horror movie. I turned to you at one point and said, “this movie is killing me!” because the ..
ACTION
RYAN: This is a remake of the 1959 Charlton Heston classic that immediately felt so redundant it begs the question, “Why?” But it’s has its pros and cons. CAROLINE: Do, please, explain. RYAN: Well it opens feeling a lot like a Soap Opera version of a Biblical epic. It’s melodramatic and riddled with amateur production ..
ACTION
RYAN: This is a modern western movie. There are cops and robbers, cowboys and indians but in present day. It’s a bank heist action film without much action. It’s slow moving, boring… there’s a lot of space between good moments. I felt impatient watching this. It’s a good case of mismanaging expectations because I went ..
ACTION
RYAN: I loved this movie so much! It’s so great having Matt Damon back and the screenplay is so great because it ties back to the very beginning of the franchise. It’s so smart. The action is incredible, I literally stopped breathing at one point. BECKY: I don’t think you breathed the whole movie. I ..
DRAMA
RYAN: This is one of the best films of the year so far. I was very surprised because the premise didn’t hook me when I heard about it and it looks very Wes Anderson, which is polarizing, to say the least. But it’s not like a Wes movie at all and it’s the kind of ..
BIOPIC
RYAN: This is a new crime drama about an undercover cop infiltrating a drug cartel, money launderer, based on a true story from the mid-80s in Tampa, Florida. It’s shocking and horrifying the amount of drug money filtered through our country and the way that banks are involved too. The drug biz is so large ..
ACTION
RYAN: This is an epic tale of greed, revenge and survival. It has everything you love and want out of a Tarzan story – there are aspects of his origin, but it’s more of an Indiana Jones type of story that takes a domesticated Tarzan back to the jungle. BECKY: And I wasn’t expecting to ..
ACTION
RYAN: This is the sequel to the 2013 magic/heist thriller. These characters are like modern day Robin Hoods in the sense they steal from the rich and give to the poor, or more accurately, they are vigilante magicians who expose the big, bad corporations. CHUCK: As they do. RYAN: Where are the real life vigilantes ..
COMEDY
RYAN: This is a new comedy that’s really an experimental/absurdist type of film and among those I’ve seen, it’s gotta be my fave. It’s not unwatchable. It’s weird with a sci fi bent. It’s an alternate reality where single people are forced to couple up in 45 days or be transformed into the animal of ..
COMEDY
RYAN: This is a new indie starring Susan Sarandon as, indeed, a meddler. She’s, like, a New York, overbearing nosey mother who truly cares about her daughter played by Rose Byrne and they have a phenomenal on screen chemistry. But even on her own, Susan has chemistry with this role! The amount of language she gets ..
COMEDY
RYAN: This is a new indie drama. It’s produced by Nicole Kidman and is the second film directed by Jason Bateman. They costar as siblings. It’s a little slow to start but the last quarter of the film is so juicy it makes up for the deliberate pacing. We watched it on a DVD screener ..
COMEDY
RYAN: This is the third film in the holiday movie franchise by director Garry Marshall that features amazing ensembles of celebrity casts. He did New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day, both which I found mediocre and disconnected. But this one fixed all the problems. It’s charming, funny, endearing. You laugh, cry. I loved it. CHUCK: ..
