Peter Berg

SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL: Wahlberg & Peter Berg's Mediocre Reunion
SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL: Wahlberg & Peter Berg’s Mediocre Reunion

Spenser Confidential feels generic, tonally confused, and most importantly, the product of a workmanlike filmmaker clearly out of his element.

Video Dispatches: VIY, LET’S SCARE JESSICA, EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY & VERY BAD THINGS
Video Dispatches: VIY, LET’S SCARE JESSICA, EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY & VERY BAD THINGS

We take a look at the recent home video releases of Viy (1967), Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971), The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987) and Very Bad Things (1998).

MILE 22: An Abysmal, Cacophonous, Incoherent Ride

Team WahlBerg’s latest effort Mile 22 is abysmal, wasting the talents of all parties involved for a schlocky, aggressive shoot ‘em up picture.

PATRIOTS DAY: Love Conquers Hate

Patriots Day is a memoir to the tragic events of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing, brought to screen both tactfully and honorably.

DEEPWATER HORIZON: An Environmental Blockbuster
DEEPWATER HORIZON: An Apolitical Environmental Blockbuster

Preservation of the environment shouldn’t be a political issue, let alone a controversial one. Yet the right wing governments of the western world are frequently abandoning environmental and climate change issues, even building entire grand-standing platforms on how the entire act of climate change is a mere myth. The masses no longer trust “experts”, no matter how many facts they have on their side about the devastating realities of our changing environment.

DEEPWATER HORIZON: An Environmental Blockbuster
DEEPWATER HORIZON Trailer

The largest oil spill in U.S. history isn’t the most obvious, or even the most appropriate, place to set a story about everyday heroes, but director Peter Berg and star Mark Wahlberg are doing their best to sell us on that version of events in Deepwater Horizon.

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Film Inquiry Recommends: Insane Films

Over at our official Facebook page , we are currently posting daily Film Recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! Last week’s theme is Insane Films, films which push the envelope in outrageous ways with entertaining, yet crazy results.