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After blindly walking into ‘The Counselor’ with absolutely no knowledge of the story, aware only that it was written as Pulitzer Prize-winner Cormac McCarthy’s first original screenplay, I had to chew on it a lon...
After blindly walking into ‘The Counselor’ with absolutely no knowledge of the story, aware only that it was written as Pulitzer Prize-winner Cormac McCarthy’s first original screenplay, I had to chew on it a lon...
For those of us who’d like to pretend that we live in a post-racial America, director Steve McQueen’s ’12 Years a Slave’ serves as a stark reminder of the horrifying wounds of slavery –wounds that, even 150...
Is it possible to respect, but not like, a film? If so, director J.C. Chandor’s ‘All Is Lost’ would seem to be a case study. It’s an ambitious undertaking – a tense tale of survival with nearly no dialogue....
For the third weekend in a row, ‘Gravity’ held strong atop the box office. Not only did it crush the other new movie releases, the sci-fi drama barely slipped in attendance, dropping only 28%. (Last weekend, it fell 23...
This weekend’s two biggest new movies revisit familiar ground. One takes us back in time to ’80s buddy action flicks, the other remakes a horror classic. Pick your poison.
Pushing 70, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are still making movies that people would’ve loved in the 1980s.
‘Carrie’ was Stephen King’s first novel published to the masses, and it made him a writing sensation. In dealing with remakes, it’s difficult not to compare to previous versions, as we have the same story a...
I had no idea what to expect from Jim Mickle’s ‘We Are What We Are’. I went in knowing nothing about it, other than that it was a remake of a recent Spanish movie of the same name. This haunting film is ‘Th...
Despite competition from another acclaimed Oscar-contender, ‘Gravity’ held its grip on the box office this weekend. Meanwhile, the ‘Machete’ sequel was dead on arrival, and North America said “No More...
Talk about a counter-programming. As the Oscar contenders continue to roll out, this weekend is all over the place with an over-the-top B-movie and yet another remake of Shakespeare’s most famous love story.
“Machete don’t tweet” is just one of the hilarious lines uttered by Danny Trejo’s iconic character, Machete Cortez, in this new fun-as-hell sequel from Robert Rodriguez. If you pay attention, you might noti...
Just one week after ‘Gravity’, we get another major Oscar contender. Paul Greengrass, the director mostly known for movies that are shaky as hell, has finally made a film that actually warrants shaky-cam. Set almost en...