Cinematic Considerations AMarine cycles down a lonely country road when he is abruptly struck by a police cruiser, handcuffed, searched and has bail money for his cousin seized by two smalltown cops. For as much as this seems either surreal or outlandish, the first 5-10 minutes of writer/director Je...

Cinematic Considerations Bringing characters back from the dead after 36 years requires a real need for new storytelling or an ardent desire from fans to see more of a particular plot or character. Tim Burton’s 1988 family horror comedy classic “Beetlejuice” is a movie with a lot of nostalgia for au...

Cinematic Considerations Director Sean McNamara got his start in filmmaking during the 1980s, working as the primary sound engineer for Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign. His reverence for the 40th president shines through in the latest political biopic, “Reagan,” which debuted in theaters this ...

Cinematic Considerations If genre filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan could totally pull off the premise of his latest film, it would be quite the thriller. ...

Is Marvel Studios back? Not quite. Many prognosticators in Hollywood anticipated that the arrival of Ryan Reynolds’ infamous, foulmouthed Deadpool cha...

Cinematic Considerations Decades after Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton rekindled their romance while chasing tornadoes across Oklahoma, Hollywood decided t...