 By Kaely Monahan For the past 16 years, the Phoenix Film Festival (PFF) has been home for the Arizona film community and its continued growth has attracted filmmakers from all over the world. This year, the festival will run April 7-14 at the Harkins Scottsdale 101. The festival schedule is still getting locked down but a preview schedule is online...
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 By Eric Mungenast It’s clear the filmmakers behind Allegiant, the newest entry in the Divergent series, had a very specific audience in mind when they opted to make this film. The actors are very pretty, the dialogue is very simplistic, the plot is very straightforward, and the plot holes are big enough for a tank to drive through. So, perhaps but hopefully perhaps not, this film might work for the target audience, but anyone outside of that core demographic is in for a very bumpy ride.
Allegiant picks up right after the end of its predecessor Insurgent, which came out in 2015. The gate that separated Chicago from the rest of the world has opened, but new leader Evelyn (Naomi Watts, one of many people far too good for this film) prevents anyone from leaving. Instead, she hosts a series of trials to execute the enforcers who served under the previous regime. Not happy with how things are going, series protagonist/The Special Tris (Shailene Woodley) recruits her boyfriend Four (Theo James, aka diet Paul Walker) and a few friends from the other two films in the series (Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort and Zoë Kravitz) to see exactly what life is like on the other side of the fence and to see if the grass is indeed greener...  By Eric Mungenast J. J. Abrams has a penchant for shrouding his work with mystery, selling the intrigue of an idea instead of the actual film. It’s a fun gimmick too, with the ad campaigns providing just enough information to tantalize but not enough to describe what the film is actually about.
The question, though, is whether or not these projects (and they feel more like projects than films) are good enough to justify the secrecy. In the case of 10 Cloverfield Lane – a film which bears Abrams’ name as a producer – the answer is... |
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