• Chappie

    Capsule Reviews: March 2015 Wide Releases

    Chappie Inferior mash-up of RoboCop and A.I. set in a dystopian Johannesburg where robots act as the police force. When a programmer illegally reprograms one of them to be sentient, the robot is "raised" by a couple of wannabe-gangsters (Ninja and Yolandi Visser from the South African band Die Antwoord, ...
  • Medeas

    Capsule Reviews: January 2015 Limited Releases

    Amira & Sam Martin Starr (HBO's Silicon Valley) as a former soldier living in New York City who falls in love with an undocumented Iraqi immigrant (Dina Shihabi). Lovely cinematography by Daniel Vecchione, who captures New York twilight at its most magical. First-time writer/director Sean Mullin particularly adept at character ...