Weekend Movies: Beautiful Disasters
This weekend offers a variety of trainwrecks – small, emotional, geriatric and existential.
This weekend offers a variety of trainwrecks – small, emotional, geriatric and existential.
It’s been a hell of a year for Amy Schumer, who seemed to pop up almost everywhere as her cable sketch-comedy series hit its stride. She’s at once on point with the social climate of her time and willing to push bounda...
After Edgar Wright quit ‘Ant-Man’ a few weeks before filming, the internet kicked up a big fuss. The news immediately transformed an exciting take on an obscure Marvel property into a controversial project that most ne...
‘Mr. Holmes’ seems to have so much promise as the opening scenes establish the tale. It’s a layered, meta take on an aging Sherlock Holmes that imagines the great detective as a real person who was spiced up into...
The post title is pretty self-explanatory. Here are a few trailers from last weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con 2015, along with one extra to remind readers of a movie set to release in August.
‘Super Size Me’ might have been a great gimmick to hinge a documentary around, but the movie also empowered people who likely shouldn’t be making documentaries or jokes to pick up a camera. The latest unfortunate...
Watching Asif Kapadia’s documentary ‘Amy’ can feel painfully familiar – not only because the sad life of Amy Winehouse is such a fresh story, but also because of how frustratingly common her rock and roll tragedy...
Universal Studios is unstoppable this year. Last week, the 2015 powerhouse crossed the global $3 billion mark thanks to the success of ‘Furious 7’, ‘Jurassic World’, ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ and ‘...
Let’s say you had a time machine. You could use it to go back and prevent world wars or save the mother of the future leader of the human resistance from a cyborg assassin. Sure sure sure, that’s all well and good. Or,...
Pack up the family because the ‘Despicable Me’ spin-off has arrived just in time to clean out your wallet while the kids are all out of school. If you can scrounge up a few bucks after that, you can also see a generic ...
‘Tangerine’ drew attention at Sundance and elsewhere on the film festival circuit for being a feature film shot entirely on an iPhone. That’s the kind of canny gimmick that’ll get an indie some attention th...
‘Big Game’ serves up the kind of lovably stupid high concept entertainment that used to dominate Hollywood’s summertime output. Samuel L. Jackson stars as the President of the United States trapped in the mountai...