Learning to Drive is a failure, but not in the way you may be thinking. It does not fail to accurately tell a story or create an emotional response; it does so with clunky but adequate results. Instead Learning to Drive fails to realize what the more meaningful story is within the film. Learning to Drive starts with Darwan (Ben …

Summer should be filled with breezy action films like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. With the void left while waiting for the new James Bond film, Spectre, spoofs like Spy and reincarnated homages like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. are emerging to keep the audiences entertained with espionage and gadgets galore. Based on the massively popular television series that ran fifty years …

At first, The Gift feels like a film you have seen countless times before. A married couple, Simon and Robyn (Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall), move into a new sprawling house. A chance encounter with an old classmate of Simon’s leads to a housewarming gift, which leads to an awkward dinner. Simon is weary of the man, though Robyn is …

Dark Places has everything in place to be a great film. Based on the eponymous novel it is the next film based on the works of Gillian Flynn, who also penned last year’s hit Gone Girl. It is also the second time this year that we see Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult together on screen, the first being the wildly …

I have a problem with romantic comedies. I generally find them neither funny, nor romantic, which leaves little to no appeal. Amy Schumer’s giant leap from sketch comedy to the big screen, Trainwreck, manages to both romantic and hilarious. Schumer wrote and stars in Trainwreck, with Judd Apatow directing. Her character, Amy, starts the film in a flashback to a …