Spoilers, but there's not much to spoil

Watching this was a lot more difficult than I originally thought, not because of the jokes that the lead character, Swanson (played by Tim Heidecker) cracks, but because it felt as dreary as he is. It was getting through the movie that was the real challenge, because I felt like I was lazily passing time without direction just like Swanson was.

Swanson's a hipster sitting on a million bucks - he's about to…

Now if Taylor Lautner gets a nod at Cannes, we can collectively forgive the Twilight Saga.

Good Time gave me a similar feeling to when I watched the first 20 or so minutes of Mad Max: Fury Road - I forgot about whether I was breathing for those 20 minutes. I'm not sure if it's the shaky cam that keeps me so hooked onto it because it's normally an instant turn-off. There's something about the way the Safdie brothers use…

12 Angry Men is the rare classic film that doesn't have a cinematic 'souvenir', so to speak, that its fans especially praise. There's no one scene, character (well,) quote or object they can take from the film as their reference to carry around. And yet it's such an enduring film, because of the characters, the way they play logical tennis with their points, and the flow of the film.

A boy is accused of stabbing his father, and Juror #8,…