Director Danny Strong offers a tepid biopic riff on the 2013 documentary Salinger in âRebel in the Rye.â The film explores the 1950s, around Salingerâs writing of âThe Catcher in the Rye,â whose place in the pantheon of great American novels is indelible. Holden Caulfield, the novelâs protagonist, gave a voice to the disaffection and confusion of modern living and his condemnation of all things fake rendered the book timeless and dearly loved. The main issue with âRebel in the Ryeâ ...
Michael Cuesta directs the film adaptation of the New York Times bestseller, âAmerican Assassin.â The action novel, written by Vince Flynn, received an incredible amount of praise from both critics and audiences, so it is not any surprise that Hollywood has decided to turn it into another action movie. However, this adaptation takes the mindless formula of a spy action movie to a whole new levelâand not in a good way.The movie begins with Mitch Rapp (Dylan OâBrien) watching his fiancee die ...
Little was known about âMother!â leading up to its release, and that is exactly as writer/director Darren Aronofsky wanted. Marketing for the film has been gearing it towards the horror genre, though that is nowhere near what the film truly is.Still, it didnât prevent the marketing team from producing one of the most memorable trailers in recent history. Use of pizzicato to stir and illicit heightened tension as the trailer ramps up the intensity is original and unnerving. âMother!â itself ...
âGood Time,â directed by Josh and Benny Safdie (Benny also stars in the film as Nick) tells a one night tale of madness and crime in New York City. After a bank robbery gone wrong, Connie (Robert Pattinson) must get his brother, Nick, out of the dangerous Rikers Island Prison before the night is up.
Pattinson has shifted his own career following the âTwilightâ series, which sprang him to stardom. He took two years off from acting before his transformative return in David Michôdâs ...
Stephen Kingâs seminalâand wildly popularâtome âItâ is newly interpreted by âMamaâ writer and director, Andy Muschietti. Unlike the 1990 TV mini-series, this silver screen adaptation focuses on the protagonistsâ childhood encounter with the demonic killer-clown Pennywise, leaving the adulthood one for a future sequel. The setting is 1989 in the small town of Derry, Maine. Beneath the bucolic exterior, something dark is stirring in the townâs underbellyâliterally, in the sewers, ...
"Shot Caller" tells a story of a man named Jacob Harlan, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who had it all: a beautiful wife who loved him, a kid and a successful career. All of this changed one night when he was charged with a DUI manslaughter and was sent to a federal penitentiary to serve his time. This ends up being the first of many catalysts that charts the journey of the titular character from straight-laced man to a leader of a neo-Nazi group. Director Ric Roman Waugh shoots this film with ...
Weâve all been there: The activity of the evening for Welcome Week just doesnât seem all that entertaining and now youâre left with a few hours to spend with your new friends. You can only go monumenting at night so many times, and youâve definitely done your due diligence. Itâs time to break out the movies and favorite shows. Read on for The Eagleâs guide to the top five flicks and shows to watch with the new crew.5. âGame of Thronesâ (HBO)This series seems to have taken on ...
âWhose Streetsâ is a first-hand account of the protests following the death of Michael Brown in
Ferguson. The necessity of covering the events from a perspective other than that of the mainstream media is without question, and this film offers unprecedented access. âWhose Streetsâ captures the siege-like atmosphere in Ferguson when the protests beganâincluding how the midnight curfew, an intimidation tactic, was couched as a safety measure. A woman shouts, âThis is not Iraq,â as ...
There is no comprehensive reporting system for the number of missing and murdered Native American women and girls in the United States--the only category of missing persons without one. Many reports, however, estimate that Native women are murdered at more than 10 times the
national average.
âWind River,â although fictional, portrays this bleak reality with a steely resolve. Screenwriter and director
Taylor Sheridan (âSicarioâ and âHell and High Waterâ) paints a picture of life ...
âAtomic Blondeâ drives a stiletto straight into the jugular of every âgirl powerâ spy movie out there, literally and figuratively (watch the trailer and you will see what I mean). Based on the graphic novel series âThe Coldest Cityâ by Antony Johnston, Sam Hart and Steven Perkins, âAtomic Blondeâ is set in 1989, just as the Berlin Wall is collapsing. Charlize Theron stars as Lorraine Broughton, a British MI6 operative sent to Berlin to find a watch that contains the names of wanted ...
