Movie Review: KONG: SKULL ISLAND

Kong: Skull Island is the reboot film for the King Kong character set in Legendary’s MonsterVerse. The film is directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and is set in the 1970s at the end of the Vietnam War as a group of scientists and an organization called MONARCH are given a military escort to travel to and study a previously undiscovered island in the South Pacific. The film stars Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, John Goodman, Corey Hawkins, Toby Kebbell, Thomas Mann, Shea Whigham, and Tian Jing.

Directorial Debut: Paul Thomas Anderson's HARD EIGHT

Welcome to a new installment of DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS, where we look at some of the best, most interesting, and iconic directors and the films that started their careers. This week we take a look at Paul Thomas Anderson's indie thriller, HARD EIGHT.