2017-10-03 16:00
Set sporadically between multiple timelines, Dealer/Healer is a biopic about a former junkie drug dealer turned drug counsellor that struggles to capture the imagination.
Set in Hong Ko… Read More
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2017-10-02 16:00
Two weeks ago, Wonder Women, one of the biggest blockbusters of the summer finally hit DVD/Blu-ray shelves. It’s a film that has been highly talked about due to the fact that it… Read More
2017-09-08 14:00
Back in 2012, I saw and reviewed a little independent film called Goon, an ice hockey comedy with a ton of heart that easily joined the ranks of one of my favorite sports films. Over t… Read More
2017-08-26 22:07
It has been a few years since I’ve had the pleasure of screening a film from the twistedly gory mind of special effects/make-up artist extraordinaire, Yoshihiro Nishimura (Helldriver… Read More
2017-08-01 00:16
Due to unforeseen circumstances, I wasn’t able to cover Japan Cuts in the same depth that I have in the past but that didn’t stop me from catching a few films, all of which were… Read More
2017-07-28 18:00
The top genre film fest in the world, Fantasia Festival, has been underway now for a couple of weeks and is set to wrap up next Wednesday. It’s easy to get bogged down by all the… Read More
2017-07-28 15:00
Get ready to enjoy this low-key story about a stray cat which ends up with surprisingly high stakes, as the comedic thriller Alley Cat brings together three down-on-their-luck type… Read More
2017-07-25 15:00
Debuting his first Feature, French filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot attempts to take a look at the history of Hiroshima and the ongoing effects that still haunt the city 70 years after t… Read More
2017-07-16 15:31
When a festival describes a film as “a gloriously irreverent mash-up of White Men Can’t Jump, Rain Man, and Kingpin.” It makes it difficult for any film fan to turn away an… Read More
2017-07-16 14:00
After an impressive opening weekend and rave reviews worldwide, it’s fair to say that Spider-Man: Homecoming is the Spider-Man film we’ve been waiting a long time to see. With a… Read More
2017-07-04 16:56
The beginning of the 2017 New York Film Festival has finally arrived and this year the curators have managed to surprise and delight audiences with the international premiere of a movie call… Read More
2017-07-02 15:51
When a sex addicted federal agent named Ponch (Michael Pena) loses credibility with his boss, he is forced to take backseat roll in an investigation involving some crooked cops. When he goes… Read More
2017-06-15 01:01
Praise be, the Japan Cuts 2017 line-up is here! I feel like I sound like a broken record ever time summer rolls around but, it’s the truth, this festival is a blast and I’m… Read More
2017-05-04 14:05
Movies about how great movies are often tug at an audience’s heartstrings — after all, there’s a reason why romantic celebrations of Hollywood like The Artist and La La Lan… Read More
2017-05-03 14:05
During the 1987 NFL season, the players went on strike during Weeks 3, 4, 5 and 6. After the league cancelled the Week 3 games, teams were drawn up with players who decided not to strike, ex… Read More
2017-05-02 14:05
If the script for Rocky had not been produced in the mid 1970s and Martin Scorsese came upon the script several years later, there’s a good chance that the movie might’ve come ou… Read More
2017-05-01 14:05
A lot of people in the industry thought Disney and Marvel Studios were biting off way more than they could chew with 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy, based on a relatively obscure cosmi… Read More
2017-04-27 14:05
In the beginning of The Clapper, infomercial actor Eddie Krumble (Ed Helms) walks down a Los Angeles street that is depicted with an unreal, painted quality. He passes a wall that has graffi… Read More
2017-04-26 14:05
In 2010, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon teamed with filmmaker Michael Winterbottom for The Trip, a BBC series that featured the two comedians largely improvising while playing fictionalized ver… Read More
2017-04-22 14:00
The first film I screened at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival was writer/director Liz W. Garcia’s One Percent More Humid. The film is a New England set, college-age drama… Read More
2017-04-21 16:00
The Tribeca Film Festival is here and while this may not be the first film I’ve seen at this year’s fest, it is the first review I’ve written to kick-off my yearly coverage… Read More
2017-04-06 14:58
Family is a sticky subject to tackle on film, inspiring a certain kind of love story. There’s baggage, there’s struggle, there are extenuating circumstances, but let’s not… Read More
2017-03-27 16:00
From popular action auteur Johnnie To comes a new crime thriller called Three (San ren xing), starring Louis Koo, Zhao Wei, and Wallace Chung. Set predominantly in the emergency room in a ho… Read More
2017-03-21 14:05
Out today on iTunes, Blu-ray, and DVD is Other Madnesses, a film Movie Buzzers had the pleasure to watch at 2015’s First Time Fest. Other Madnesses was directed by first-time director… Read More
2017-03-17 16:00
In American movies it’s pretty much the good guys versus the bad guys – the heroes manageable flaws not withstanding. So when the drama takes into account real events you… Read More
2017-02-09 18:06
When it was released, The Lego Movie took the world by storm. No one expected a movie about colored bricks to be so hilarious, crowd-pleasing and original, that’s why it made it on to… Read More
2017-01-24 17:00
Come and Find Me begins rather cryptically as Aaron Paul appears to be blatantly following Annabelle Wallis right back to her apartment and into her home. As it turns out, David and Claire a… Read More
2017-01-23 23:42
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín doesn’t have a ton of experience as a director, but of the seven films he has directed, the most recent four have been critically praised. … Read More
2017-01-16 15:00
This review is a repost of our original review from November 4. It does include an additional review section for the Blu-ray release of the film.
Yeon Sang-ho’s (The King of Pigs) crit… Read More
2017-01-15 16:24
Today, the XFL might be thought of as a footnote in the history of televised professional sports — or, if you’re less forgiving, thought of as a punchline — but as a teenag… Read More
2016-12-23 19:46
When Stephanie Fleming (Zoey Deutch) decides to invite her family out to California for the holidays to meet her boyfriend, she doesn’t realize the chaos that’s going to erupt up… Read More
2016-12-23 00:31
When people ask me about martial arts movies there are only a handful that immediately pop up into my mind, but they generally center around specific actors. One such actor is Donnie Yen, th… Read More
2016-12-20 00:57
American Idol for the animated world, Sing focuses on Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a theater loving koala who owns and runs a palace theater that has since fallen on hard times. … Read More
2016-12-14 00:29
Disorder throws a bunch of stuff at you as returning soldier/bodyguard Matthias Schoenaerts is tasked with protecting Diane Kruger on the French Rivera. Set under the umbrella of a vet suffe… Read More
2016-12-07 17:05
The advertising for Office Christmas Party suggests that this R-rated holiday is outrageous. It isn’t. In fact, it’s remarkably tame compared to what the commercials promise. Yes… Read More
2016-11-21 15:00
It’s All Good might well be the most dramatised crowdfunded film to date. The Chicago-based comedy group FND Films managed to not only pull off one of the great internet heists of the… Read More
2016-11-19 20:00
There are a lot of great movies being released this weekend and one of those highlights is Kelly Fremon Craigs’ dramedy, The Edge of Seventeen starring Hailee Steinfeld.
The Edge of Se… Read More
2016-11-19 14:41
It has been five years since the last Harry Potter film hit theaters and it appears the fervor for Potter never really went away. Fans have always clamored for more and J.K. Rowling ha… Read More
2016-11-04 22:03
Yeon Sang-ho’s (The King of Pigs) critically hailed zombie horror thriller, Train to Busan, is returning to theaters in the US this weekend. For those unfamiliar with the f… Read More
2016-10-18 16:05
The stakes are high for Planet Earth in this ambitious IndieGoGo-funded Sci-Fi comedy about a team of squabbling misfits who must put aside their differences for the greater good.
In 1977, t… Read More
2016-10-17 16:16
There is so much that is beautiful about Elle that distracts from how ugly of a film it often is. I never imagined a film that opens with such a frightening rape scene could be so funny. But… Read More
2016-10-17 16:00
This weekend, there weren’t many new films that screamed must-see, but Gavin O’Connor’s new flick, The Accountant, was certainly the most intriguing one to be released and… Read More
2016-10-16 15:59
It’s been six years since we’ve heard the name Na Hong-jin, the director behind The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, two fantastic South Korean films that took the genre world by storm… Read More
2016-10-11 18:59
It has been over 15 years since I’ve seen the 1991 animated Disney classic Beauty and the Beast. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise’s fami… Read More
2016-10-10 16:00
Park Chan-wook is one of my favorite directors. The Korea auteur is a master of style, detail, atmosphere and creativity, resulting in films that often leave a lasting impression. Know… Read More
2016-10-09 23:28
Who would’ve ever imagined that 50 years after the premiere of Batman, the wonderful television series starring Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin, that West and Ward would sti… Read More
2016-10-09 15:19
In 1981, Stephen Sondheim and Hal Prince were firmly established as one of the most successful songwriter-producer/director partnership in Broadway history. Together the pair collaborated on… Read More
2016-10-06 23:50
While the latest American remake of Godzilla was in theaters just two years ago, the original studio behind the classic monster, Toho, hasn’t made a film with its signature creation fo… Read More
2016-10-05 15:36
On October 4, Movie Buzzers attended a special screening of the documentary Thank You For Your Service aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid in Manhattan. The film is a tragic investigation into the fa… Read More
2016-10-04 16:00
Disclaimer: This review will have some spoilers
Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a slave who lives on a plantation owned by a very fair (by slave-owner standards) and gene… Read More
2016-09-28 13:53
The next film in a year chock full of primo animated features is the Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland co-directed feature, Storks. A clever take on the fairy tale of storks deliveri… Read More
2016-09-26 16:52
In Japan, Uzumasa is considering the Hollywood of their film industry. With many ‘jidaigeki’ (sword fighting dramas) films made over the years, there are characters within t… Read More
2016-09-24 14:57
Samuel Goldwyn Films has announces that it has acquired the North American rights to the romantic comedy It Had to Be You, starring How I Met Your Mother star Cristin Milioti and Dan Soder (… Read More
2016-09-23 15:24
Level Up follows lay about Matthew (Josh Bowman), a twenty-something gamer without a job living in London. His successful girlfriend, Anna (Leila Mimmack), is quietly losing her patience wit… Read More
2016-09-19 16:05
Millions of people probably wish of getting a pile of money to make movies, and on the surface that sounds like a pretty good dream. But when that money comes from an insane dictator who kid… Read More
2016-09-16 16:10
In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary.
A year later their footage was found.
These words either sca… Read More
2016-09-12 16:23
A highly anticipated film for this year’s Japan Cuts, Kako: My Sullen Past isn’t an easy film to describe, in this story about a whimsy teen, Kako (Fumi Nikaidou), during he… Read More
2016-09-01 18:30
When a porn star is killed and a seemingly unrelated girl goes missing, an alcoholic private eye named Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and an enforcer for-hire Jackson Healy (Russell Crow) must… Read More
2016-08-30 16:00
Set to his theaters and VOD this week from Drafthouse Films is Klown Forever, the sequel to the 2012 outrageous Danish comedy, Klown. The film reunites the writers and stars of the film Casp… Read More
2016-08-24 16:00
It’s still hot in Denver folks, but the evening air does smell a bit on the Autumn side. With that, comes a slew of horror films that may (or may not) start to get you ready for All Ha… Read More
2016-08-08 16:05
New Yorkers and Long Islanders — if you support indie film (and if you’re on Movie Buzzers, of course you do), and are available on August 13, why not attend a FREE screening of… Read More
2016-08-06 19:08
Their first major film together as leads on the big screen, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key take a ridiculous idea and somehow manage to make a moderately entertaining movie out of it.&n&hell…Read More
2016-07-30 16:00
Surrealism is at its most extreme in this drama about an ageing writer who strikes up a relationship with his shape-shifting goldfish.
Something that’s akin to Ruby Sparks, but with mu… Read More
2016-07-29 12:20
The plot sounds a little bland, the opening few minutes suggests a potentially dull, dreary story that will plod along at an unbearably slow rate, but then somehow The Projects turns around… Read More
2016-07-21 16:00
I’m a big fan of Yoshihiro Nakamura. Ever since I saw his masterpiece Fish Story years ago I’ve made it a point to see his new films whenever they become available. Thankfully, t… Read More
2016-07-20 16:00
Originally released in 2015 back in Japan, Sion Sono’s fantastical dramedy Love & Peace has finally made its way to NYC thanks to the Japan Cuts festival. This genre mash-up… Read More
2016-07-18 16:00
Almost entirely unrelated to the original film starring Donnie Yen, SPL 2 aka Kill Zone 2 has finally found its way to the state. Personally, I have been very keen to see the new featu… Read More
2016-07-18 16:00
With Japan Cuts officially underway, it’s time to visit the first film I screener for this year’s festival, Nobuhiro Doi’s dramedy, Flying Colors.
Based on a true st… Read More
2016-07-16 16:00
You know summer is here when a swarm of Asian films are being reviewed on Movie Buzzers thanks to the New York Asian Film Festival and Japan Cuts festival being held back to back. With… Read More
2016-07-15 23:01
Opening this years Japan Cuts 2016 is the quirky dramedy about a metal-rocker returning home to introduce his fiancé to his dysfunctional family.
Eikichi (Ryuhei Matsuda) is the… Read More
2016-07-09 15:00
Looking at Keeper of Darkness on paper, you’d be thrown off by how much fun this film really is. You read the premise, you see the style and you watch the opening few&n&helli…Read More
2016-07-08 20:57
The closing night film for this year’s NYAFF is Adam Tsuei’s dark comedy The Tenants Downstairs. This new Taiwanese feature follows a Landlord (Simon Yam) who runs an apartment b… Read More
2016-07-07 23:00
This seems to be a great year for animal oriented animated films. While I haven’t seen Zootopia, I hear it was phenomenal, Finding Dory was terrific, and the trailer for The Secret Lif… Read More
2016-07-06 19:10
Crime and comedy are at the forefront here in this South Korean caper which brings inspired elements from Hollywood flicks such as Shawshank Redemption and Ocean’s Eleven.
Byun Jae-Woo… Read More
2016-07-05 16:50
With a vague opening, an array of super long one-shots, and a plot that somehow both impresses and frustrates, Alone delivers a miss-matched thriller that will divide audiences.
After the om… Read More
2016-07-05 16:00
One of the films I was most excited to see at this year’s NYAFF was Woo Min-ho’s crime thriller, Inside Men. Starring Lee Byung-hun (GI Joe), Jo Seung-woo, Beak Yoon-sik, a… Read More
2016-07-02 16:00
Time is of great importance in this Chinese crime drama, as actor Ruofu Wu gets an up close look at an experience that could have proven fatal over a decade ago.
Eyes usually roll when you s… Read More
2016-07-01 14:43
When The Purge was released back in 2013, I bet writer/director James DeMonaco had no idea he’d be setting up a pretty nifty little horror franchise, similar to the way James Wan&rsquo&hell…Read More
2016-06-29 16:05
When I saw Finding Dory last week, I was dismayed by the dull-looking trailers for all of the upcoming family films. So many of them had the same sort of gag-a-minute humor, the same CG anim… Read More
2016-06-28 14:30
Stephen Chow is one of a handful of directors from Hong Kong whose films I will watch without fail. The guy has a great handle on genuine slapstick humor and is one of the few who is a… Read More
2016-06-27 14:30
The 2016 NYAFF is here and the first film that I had an opportunity to view was writer/director Kim Jin-hwang’s The Boys Who Cried Wolf. This South Korean almost noir/thriller is… Read More
2016-06-23 22:11
Yesterday, the NYAFF hosted the world premiere of Twisted Justice, the opening night film for the festival’s 15th anniversary. Hailing from Japan, this crime epic inspired by the… Read More
2016-06-17 14:00
Big Johnson. Little Hart. That’s all you really all the info you need to know what kind of crime comedy you’re getting yourself into when you sit down to see Rawson Marshall Thur… Read More
2016-06-13 13:38
I know I mentioned last week that my favorite festival in the city would be kicking off in a few weeks, but I’d be lying if I said Japan Cuts wasn’t on equal footing with the NY… Read More
2016-06-10 18:00
If you ask me, James Wan is a modern master of horror. The man takes his time when it comes to crafting his films, even with sequels, and with each new original horror property he conj… Read More
2016-06-10 17:38
IT’S BACK! That’s right, my favorite festival, the New York Asian Film Festival is returning this year at the end of June for its 15th anniversary. This week, the festival… Read More
2016-06-03 14:08
From the team that brought you some of the best SNL sketches of the past 10 years comes a parody of the current state of ridiculous pop musicians, hilariously titled Popstar: Never Stop… Read More
2016-05-30 15:00
Taking on the famed hippie generation of 1960’s Britain and a small significant event that took place in the ’60s, Moonwalkers is a fun energetic comedy (with moments&n&hell…Read More
2016-05-27 14:00
“The third one always sucks.” That’s the line Jean Grey uses in the film which is clearly a knock on X-3 but, for many people, it can probably be used to describe the lackl… Read More
2016-05-20 13:43
When Nicholas Stoller’s Neighbors first hit theaters back in 2014 is was a surprise hit in my eyes. For me, it felt like the movie Zac Efron needed to do to break out of his prop… Read More
2016-05-14 13:49
With Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set to hit theaters on June 3rd, Paramount has gotten creative with their marketing and set-up something pretty freakin’ awesome. They have buil… Read More
2016-05-06 13:00
We’ve officially moved into Phase Three of Marvel’s meticulous 11-year plan and this is truly the beginning of the end, as the signs to usher in a new era after 2019 get put into… Read More
2016-05-04 16:10
Most Americans, including myself, have limited (if any) knowledge about horse racing in the UK. Because of that, many will go into the documentary Dark Horse, which follows the career of the… Read More
2016-04-27 13:27
New Yorkers (and people visiting New York this June), mark your calendars: The Film Society of Lincoln Center will be presenting two of its “Sound + Vision Presents” programs, w… Read More
2016-04-27 13:27
New Yorkers (and people visiting New York this June), mark your calendars: The Film Society of Lincoln Center will be presenting two of its “Sound + Vision Presents” programs, w… Read More
2016-04-21 14:00
Finally, a year has passed and the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival is officially kicking off and, thankfully, it is starting on a terrific note. Out of the gate, the first film I scree… Read More
2016-04-20 01:10
Modern day hip hop is a fascinating beast. Unless you have the right combination of lyrics and beats it’s hard to make it big, or at least past the small club level, and even the… Read More
2016-04-19 16:50
Writer/director Noah Buschel is a Tribeca Film Festival favorite, so that might explain why his latest film, The Phenom, is in this year’s festival. If that’s not the reason, I… Read More
2016-04-19 13:05
What’s most ironic about Saturday Night Live is that almost everyone agrees that its best days are far behind it and it seems like a relic in an era of YouTube and social media, yet ne… Read More
2016-04-18 13:15
“Isn’t writing obituaries depressing?” is one of the first questions asked in Obit, a documentary by Vanessa Gould (Between the Folds) about the writing staff of the obitua… Read More
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