The title of the film reveals the desired end destination for Magaro’s matriarch. The pleasant Nevada weather allows the windows to be rolled down and burned CDs to blare old family favorite songs. Smiles sneak in to make Omaha a proper road movie with a glimmer of hope. Yet, for every blissful moment of optimism granted by the long highway carrying them to the Great Plains, reality remains inescapable in both the rear-view mirror and the windshield aimed forward.
Read MoreThis 95-minute voyeuristic thriller morphs into a solemn drama right on cue for a powerful viewing experience, granting moments for the cast to shine and react with the historical swerve occurring before them. By shedding up close and personal light on these secondary, yet distinctive witnesses, Fehlbaum’s film adds a strong, confident, and respectful new cornerstone to the critical legacy of what happened in Munich 52 years ago which still echoes today.
Read MoreThough just a slight step short of that next level of swell and swoon matching the great romantic dramas of cinema, Past Lives’ modern collision of providence ignites a viewer’s rooting interests for how this will all turn out and engages a locked-in willingness to follow along to the absolute end. Without spoiling any more trajectories, the captivating and rarified results from Celine Song show mature restraint, reward patience, and disarm all sympathies for living and being alive.
Read MoreClosing out 2015, you will find the most argumentative and ballsiest movie of the year hitting wide theatrical release over the Christmas holiday. The real film in question to bear those bold superlatives is "The Big Short." Headlined by a star-studded cast and directed by one of the most unlikely of sources, this legitimate must-see film tip-toes audaciously between biting satire and topical cautionary tale. You won't know whether to be pissed or be entertained and that's a powerful quality to pull off.
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