Weekend Movies: You Be the Judge
In both nationwide and limited release, there are way too many movies opening this weekend.
In both nationwide and limited release, there are way too many movies opening this weekend.
For a film that serves up a tragic true story for righteous indignation, ‘Kill the Messenger’ sure is surprisingly dull. The material is interesting, even incendiary. Yet somewhere between the facts and the drama, some...
When you think of Dracula, you conjure up of one of the great personifications of evil in pop culture. Romantic? Sure. Tragic? I suppose. But still a villain and certainly a figure of evil. Yet Universal’s new Dracula reboot...
Based on the popular children’s book of the same name, ‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’ can essentially be summed up by its title. It’s a slapstick family comedy about a bad day...
Robert Downey, Jr. and Robert Duvall star as a broken father/son combo who need to make things right. And with that, we officially enter Oscar season, folks. ‘The Judge’ is a movie made purely and blatantly to win awar...
Not only did this weekend’s two widest releases score big, so did last week’s holdovers. The two new movies debuted on just about as many screens as one another and earned just about as much as one another. Neither of ...
Awards season kicks off this weekend with two terrifying tales of scenarios that you never want to find yourself in.
The Christian film industry has burst out of church basements and into the multiplexes over the past few years. It was only a matter of time before that expanding market got a semi-blockbuster, and one has finally arrived in a reb...
When ‘The Conjuring’ unexpectedly made over $300 million worldwide last summer, everyone at Warner Brothers clearly got together, munched on cigars, and said, “We gotta make this a franchise, see!” ‘A...
Based on a bestselling novel and directed by David Fincher, ‘Gone Girl’ has all the hallmarks of an awards-courting prestige movie on paper. Thankfully, the film is nothing of the sort. It’s a gleefully trashy, t...
Jason Reitman can be faulted for many things as a filmmaker, but ambition isn’t one of them. He wants to make grand, sweeping social statements wrapped in comedy that cause viewers to leap out of their seats and proclaim him...
Hollywood is one of the easiest cultures to satirize, which is why it seemed so interesting that David Cronenberg of all people would want to take a crack at it. Surely he’d have some sort of twisted, horrific and psychosexu...