Author Archive: Mike Dalton
Mike works during the day in beautiful downtown Chicago as a Media Associate and fights crime by night, stopping those who prey on the weak and the help-- no, he just watches movies. A lot of movies. Follow him on Twitter: @Mike_DaltonNAF
Mike’s Best of 2012
Avengers assemble! Err- Best Films of 2012 assemble! I’ve brought you a list of my favorites from 2012, and no The Avengers is not sitting pretty in the top spot, but it does kick off the list at number 10. 10. The Avengers. Joss Whedon manages to create the ultimate superhero flick with The [...]
The Wise Kids
Stephen Cone’s The Wise Kids is labeled as a dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, yet it plays out like an awkward Christian special mistakenly aired on ABC Family. While Cone is able to embody the spirit of a Southern Christian denomination that struggles with the same problems everyone else faces, yet they seem quantified because of [...]
Rogue Saints
To a lot of people, the idea of putting in a Christian film isn’t exactly the best representation of a good time. At least, that’s what I thought when I popped Rogue Saints into my DVD player this afternoon. Just goes to show that nothing is ever as bad as it seems, unless we’re speaking [...]
The Cottage
In essence the straight to DVD The Cottage is everything a made for TV movie should be, mainly because it doesn’t deserve a place on the big screen. The Chris Jaymes’ thriller stars David Arquette as a romance novelist in need of a new home, or so the Carpenter family thinks. When a newly wed [...]
End of Watch
Every once in awhile a movie will come along and completely shock people. End of Watch is one of those movies. With a marketing campaign roughly 1/16 of what The Avengers’ was, David Ayer’s film hits theaters this weekend without much buzz. Once people leave the theater that will change. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña [...]
The Words
When it all comes down to it, life is just a choice between words and fiction, or at least that’s how Dennis Quaid sees it. Now at this point, many of you are thinking, “Wait, I thought The Words was that movie with Bradley Cooper!” It is, don’t worry. The trick with Brian Klugman and [...]
Goats
Christopher Neil’s Goats brings together an interesting mix of actors to create what ends up being an enjoyable film, for the most part. With the tagline “You can’t choose your family . . . or can you?” the film shows that biological father’s aren’t necessarily the only option when it comes to needing a man [...]
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