Hard though it may be to believe, it’s been a full 15 years since ‘The Blair Witch Project’ ushered Found-Footage horror and internet marketing into mainstream filmmaking. It seemed like the series might have die...
Even though Edward Snowden already got his best possible movie in Laura Poitras’ tense documentary ‘Citizenfour‘, that doesn’t count in Hollywood terms. Unless it’s a bio-pic with a celebrity imperson...
September 2016 is already looking quite strong compared to years past. Thanks to a very appealing new release, this was a pretty big weekend, even despite two giant misses.
Since each week in this month features at least one potentially interesting new movie, there’s definitely hope that September will be much better than usual this year. Even though three of this weekend’s four wide rele...
Like almost all of the later period films directed by Clint Eastwood, ‘Sully’ seems to be executed with a mixture of passion and disinterest. The movie has some rousing, even stunning sequences executed by the aging fi...
You know what no one asked for? An impossibly bland animated adaptation of ‘Robinson Crusoe’ narrated by a parrot. Yet here we are. Thanks to the seemingly endless profitability of CG-animated family entertainment, we&...
This Labor Day weekend certainly didn’t have many theater chain employees laboring much. The older movies held over quite well, but the two new wide releases struggled.
The biggest problem with ‘Morgan’ is that it’s not ‘Ex Machina’, yet comes out so soon after Alex Garland’s brilliant robo-Frankenstein tale that it’s almost impossible not to draw compari...
Welcome to September, the month that’s usually the dullest and dreariest on the movie calendar. This year, however, each week features at least one wide release with potential. Accompanying this weekend’s generic horro...
‘Hands of Stone’, Hollywood’s latest uninspired boxing melodrama, is a big, long, sweeping affair. Robert De Niro has a supporting role, just in case anyone considers that a selling point anymore.
‘The Light Between Oceans’ is pure unadulterated soap opera, and weirdly that’s both its greatest strength and fatal flaw. When it works, the larger than life story pulls enormous emotions out of audiences barely...
If this summer proved anything, it’s that kids’ movies and horror flicks have a better chance at success than the giant, expensive, VFX-heavy studio tentpoles. This weekend’s big winner was of the horror variety....
