Tag: John DeSando (Critic)
Maggie’s Plan (2015)
Maggie wants to have a baby, raising him on her own, but when she gets romantically involved with John, a married man, things get complicated and all the balance of Maggie’s plans may collapse.
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to North London to help a single mother raising 4 children alone in a house plagued by a supernatural spirit.
The Lobster (2015)
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
A Bigger Splash (2015)
The vacation of a famous rock star and a filmmaker in Italy is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter.
Love and Friendship (2016)
Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica — and herself too, naturally.
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
After the re-emergence of the world’s first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
When their new next-door neighbors turn out to be a sorority even more debaucherous than the fraternity previously living there, Mac and Kelly team with their former enemy, Teddy, to bring the girls down.
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Political interference in the Avengers’ activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man.
Sing Street (2016)
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Finding Mr Right 2 (2016)
Through happenstance, a gambler in Macau and a real estate agent in California begin exchanging letters.
Green Room (2015)
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.
Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015)
In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
The First Monday in May (2016)
Follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended fashion exhibition in history, “China: Through The Looking Glass,” an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
1941. France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon V, where scientists vanish mysteriously. Avril (Marion Cotillard), a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Too Late (2015)
Explores the tangled relationship between a troubled private investigator and the missing woman he’s hired to help find.
Born to Be Blue (2015)
A re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker’s musical comeback in the late ’60s.
Criminal (2016)
In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative’s memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into a death-row inmate in hopes that he will complete the operative’s mission.
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
In 1980, a group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.