Even Quieter Sequel ‘A QUIET PLACE PART II’ Goes Places

May 18, 2021 by Matt Oakes Posted in Most Popular, Out in Theaters Tagged A Quiet Place Part II, Cillian Murphy, Horror, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Out in Theaters, Reviews 1 Comment

John Krasinski’s Lee Abbott may have bit the dust in the actor-turned-filmmaker’s directorial debut but that doesn’t stop him from returning in the opening moments of A Quiet Place Part II. The scene is set as Marco Beltrami’s foreboding soundtrack creeps into our senses as a ‘Day 1’ title card slips into frame. The end is nigh but no one knows anything about the devastation barreling their way. In fact, it’s just another beautiful summer day in Small Town America. The Abbot family and their tight-knit community gather in blissful ignorance at a little league game. Marcus (Noah Jupe) is up to bat when the sky erupts in flaming streaks. Something is coming. Families break off into nuclear clusters, rushing to their vehicles, heading home to regroup. Before anyone has any sense of what’s happening, monsters reign down, killing anything that makes a sound. A quiet place is born, in flame and in blood. Read More

Shia LaBeouf Excises Demons In Emotionally Raw ‘HONEY BOY’

November 13, 2019 by Matt Oakes Posted in Out in Theaters Tagged Alma Har’el, FKA Twigs, Honey Boy, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Out in Theaters, Reviews, Shia LaBeouf 2 Comments

Everyone seems to have an opinion about Shia LaBeouf, the child-star turned Transformers/Crystal Skull actor turned Hollywood bad boy. But regardless of what you think you think, anyone who checks out Honey Boy, a revealing and emotionally turbulent tell-all written by and starring LaBeouf, will come out wanting to reach through the screen and deliver a big Shia hug. Read More

‘FORD V. FERRARI’ is an Anti-Establishment American Western…with Race Cars

November 11, 2019 by Matt Oakes Posted in Out in Theaters Tagged Andrew Buckland, Buck Sanders, Caitriona Balfe, Christian Bale, Dirk Westervelt, Ford v Ferrari, James Mangold, Jason Keller, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, Jon Bernthal, Josh Lucas, Marco Beltrami, Matt Damon, Michael McCusker, Noah Jupe, Phedon Papamichael, Ray McKinnon, Tracy Letts Leave a comment

In 1966, the Ford Motor Company took on the very best in the business, Enzo Ferrari, at the world-renown Le Mans. The race? A 24-hour deathmatch that raged from dawn through dusk, past midday and midnight, through rain or shine, to its brutal conclusion. A showdown for the best and the ballsiest, Le Mans was won by the best cars driven by the ballsiest drivers. Over at Ford, men in slick suits seek corporate glory and a much-needed rejuvenation in sales. They attempt to reinvent the dad bod of cars that was Ford’s current models, opting for something sleek, sexy, durable. And, most of all, fast. In essence, a Ferrari. But a little elbow grease and a bunch of smoke-filled boardroom meetings do not a champion make. A champion requires an intangible; the perfect union of fallible machinery and the grit of man. Read More

Out in Theaters: ‘A QUIET PLACE’

April 5, 2018 by Matt Oakes Posted in Most Popular, Out in Theaters Tagged A Quiet Place, Best of 2018, Bryan Woods, Emily Blunt, Horror, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Scott Beck 4 Comments

Put your phones on silent bitches. A Quiet Place, a masterfully disquieting creature feature from The Office alum John Krasinski, simply will not stand for interruption. Taking pages from the books of Hitchcock, Argento, and Spielberg, Krasinski skillfully weaves together a sharply intelligent, emotionally involving and blisteringly suspenseful chamber-piece that layers a uniquely “silent” horror film in with a very personal treatise on the challenges of parenthood. Read More

Out in Theaters: ‘SUBURBICON’

October 25, 2017 by Matt Oakes Posted in Out in Theaters Tagged Alexandre Desplat, Coen Brothers, George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, Oscar Isaac, Out in Theaters, Reviews, Suburbicon 7 Comments

A Beaver Clever-era, suburbia-set take on the Fargo formula, Suburbicon manages to tack onto its strange plot plagiarism a tone deaf racial integration backdrop and a slew of characters unable to pass as either likable or interesting. It’s an oddly comfortless misfire from director George Clooney, one that seems promising on paper but never is able to click once the tape starts rolling. Snooze-inducing if stylish, Suburbicon takes a host of talent in front of and behind the camera and squanders it in on an effort that, while never outright stupid, is almost unbearably not as smart, clever or funny as it seems to think it is. Read More