R.I.P. Debbie Reynolds
The dreadful year of 2016 is really just messing with us now. Just one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher died, Hollywood screen legend Debbie Reynolds has passed away as well.
Category Archives: At the Movies
Poll: Favorite Blockbusters of 2016
From ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ in January to ‘Rogue One’ at year end, a lot of movies in 2016 made a lot of money at the box office. Not all of them were actually well liked by the audiences that paid for them, but...
R.I.P. George Michael and Carrie Fisher
The relentless monster that is the year 2016 will not stop claiming celebrity lives. Even in its final week, the year has taken two more icons. Pop star George Michael passed away on Christmas day, and now ‘Star Wars’ ...
Christmas Weekend Box Office: The Force Is Still Strong with This
There were no major surprises with the Christmas box office. However, with movies opening on Wednesday, Friday and even Sunday, this weekend’s numbers aren’t exactly as they appear at first glance.
‘Fences’ Review: Stuck on the Stage
‘Fences’ is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name by August Wilson. Even if you hadn’t heard of that before, you’d be instantly aware of the project’s stage-bound origins. Adapting...
Christmas Weekend Movies: Why, Oh Why?
As if the holiday season weren’t busy enough on its own, Hollywood decided to cram four big new movie releases and six Oscar-contenders at us. Merry Christmas!
‘Hidden Figures’ Review: Soft Sell Inspiration
‘Hidden Figures’ is a nice movie, a sweet movie, an inspiring movie, an Oscar movie. It’s destined to make people in mall movie theaters across the land smile. It will be shown in history classes on days when tea...
‘Why Him?’ Review: Charming Bickering
‘Why Him?’ isn’t exactly the most creative comedy to come along in a while. In-laws feuding with young lovers is a comedy cliché that dates back to around the time someone first noticed slipping on a banana peel ...
‘Sing’ Review: Contagiously Cute
‘Sing’ is about as good as a movie about a bunch of cute CGI animals hosting a singing competition could possibly be. This is base level animated family comedy stuff, filled with celebrity voice acting and more pop cul...
‘Assassin’s Creed’ Review: A Masterfully Murky
They say that if at first you don’t succeed, you should try, try again. That seems to be Hollywood’s motto for videogame movies. There’s yet to be a great one, or even a particularly good one. Now we have ‘...
‘Passengers’ Review: A Waste of a Trip
At about an hour or so into ‘Passengers’, you might start to wonder why this sci-fi Christmas blockbuster headlined by possibly the two most beloved movie stars on the planet hit screens with such lackluster hype and c...
‘La La Land’ Review: Love, Song, Dance, Joy
Full disclosure: I generally don’t like musicals. They’re too artificial, too stylized, too overblown, too sweet, and mostly just too nice for me. When ‘La La Land’ was hyped up like nobody’s business...