The new, amiable comedy from Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, The Internship, taps in to something many of us fear – unemployment and the difficulties of finding something new. Vaughn and Wilson are two likable salesmen who, by all accounts, are considered really good at their jobs, but the company goes bust.  Wilson gets […]

  If we’re to believe the premise of the new horror thriller, The Purge, in the year 2022 the United States is prospering.  The unemployment rate is just 1% and crime virtually non-existent.  In fact, things are going so well that in order to keep this ever-growing prosperity the government mandate an annual 12-hour period […]

  After its Arizona premiere a couple of months ago at the Phoenix Film Festival, not to mention its initial premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the independent film The Kings of Summer received a warm reception, and with good reason; it’s a warm-hearted coming-of-age story that is funny, eccentric, and above all, hugely likable. […]

  Even though the film is set a little in the future, Hello Herman couldn’t be timelier.  It’s the story of a bullied high-school student who walks into school and kills thirty-nine students, two teachers and a police officer. What makes him commit such a horrendous act is the essence of Hello Herman, the new […]

  Stories We Tell is a documentary film from Canada, written and directed by talented actor Sarah Polley, and it’s a genuine, unexpected delight. Polley has done something quite unique.  She’s made a film exploring the relationships within her theatrical family and discovers in the process that she is, in fact, the end result of […]