Weekend Movies: Rough Seas Ahead
This weekend offers three new wide releases that each have Rotten Tomatoes scores of less than 15%. That’s a perfect sign that this is a good time to catch up on Oscar contenders.
This weekend offers three new wide releases that each have Rotten Tomatoes scores of less than 15%. That’s a perfect sign that this is a good time to catch up on Oscar contenders.
Last year, we got a Jim Jarmusch hipster vampire movie, ‘Only Lovers Left Alive‘. Once that happened, the folks who made ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ must have felt a little uncomfortable. Essentially...
There was a time (let’s call it the 1990s) when erotic thrillers were all the rage. Then the internet happened and suddenly mainstream audiences didn’t need a movie with a lecherous premise, boobs and Michael Douglas...
Remember when George Lucas said that he was going to move onto making “small, personal films” after the ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, and then made ‘Howard the Duck’? Or how about when he said the same t...
‘Leviathan’ is a 2.5 hour Russian drama that’s easily one of the most depressing and miserable experiences you’ll have in a movie theater all year. And yet, I can’t recommend it enough. It’s a s...
In some ways, ‘The Humbling’ plays like a darker sibling to recent Oscar nominee ‘Birdman’. Both films deal with over-the-hill actors experiencing mental breakdowns mid-production on a play, both favor an e...
It happens every year. A movie comes along that’s completely mediocre and undeserving of much thought beyond the fact that it features a strong performance from a beloved actor or actress. That’s all it takes to a get ...
The star system might not have the power it once did in Hollywood (one need only look at the number of Nicolas Cage movies that haven’t even hit theaters in recent years for proof of that), but it still has some pull when a ...
It’s hard to classify a movie like ‘Housebound’ by genre. Horror? Comedy? Mystery? Thriller? It’s one of those movies that lends itself to a spot on the horror shelf simply out of any other appropriate clas...
With the exception of Clint Eastwood’s ‘American Sniper’, which just had a huge first weekend in wide release, none of the other nominees for this year’s Best Picture Oscar have made a lot of money at the b...
Per tradition, the day before the new Oscar nominees were announced last week, the nominations for the 35th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards – better known to all as the Razzies – were announced first. As most of you are aware, the ...
It was never in question that the wide expansion of Clint Eastwood’s new Oscar nominee would push the film up to the top of the box office charts this weekend, but no one could have predicted the record-busting business that...