Nightcrawler is a thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, […]
Archives for October 2014
Gone Girl
Five years of marriage have not been kind to Nick and Amy Dunne (Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.) After the recession took both of their journalism jobs, they reluctantly moved to Nick’s hometown in Missouri from New York to tend to his dying mother. Maybe Amy never saw herself living outside of Manhattan, maybe Nick […]
St. Vincent
Maggie (Melissa McCarthy), a single mother, moves into a new home in Brooklyn with her 12-year old son, Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher). Forced to work long hours, she has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of their new neighbor, Vincent (Bill Murray), a retired curmudgeon with a penchant for alcohol and gambling.An odd […]
The Equalizer
Many will recognize The Equalizer from the cult favorite 1980s TV series led by Ed Woodward, but they’ll see few similarities in the bleak and bloody version directed by Antoine Fuqua. Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall, a genial, helpful stock guy at a Home Depot-type store. This being The Equalizer, we know that no guy […]