On Becoming a God in Central Florida Premiere Recap: “Go-Ge
The awkwardly lengthy title of Showtime’s new dark comedy On Becoming a God in Central Florida seems indicative of a problem with the series: It doesn’t know when or how to stop.
The awkwardly lengthy title of Showtime’s new dark comedy On Becoming a God in Central Florida seems indicative of a problem with the series: It doesn’t know when or how to stop.
As expected from a feature-length directorial debut by a pair of siblings with a fashion and design background, ‘Woodshock’ looks absolutely stunning. Kate and Laura Mulleavy have created a series of evocative and gorg...
Reduced down to a simple logline, ‘The Beguiled’ sounds like a cheeky, sleazy, silly picture. That’s likely because when Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood made a movie out of the Thomas Cullinan novel in the 1970s, t...
‘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...
There are several ways in which ‘Midnight Special’ feels like a throwback. In movie geekery terms, the film plays as an homage to the mystery, complexity, wonderment and technical mastery that young Steven Spielberg an...
The first season of FX’s ‘Fargo’ spin-off was originally supposed to be a limited-run series. When the show proved popular and the network asked for another season, creator Noah Hawley wasn’t sure he even w...
The summer movie season may be heating up at the theatrical box office, but things are a lot slower on home video. Unfortunately, the beginning of July doesn’t offer much in the way of blockbuster smashes on Blu-ray. Perhaps...
Even though last week’s ‘Oz: The Great and Powerful’ brought some box office light to this dismal year, the trend of bland movies continues this weekend. There’s no way that ‘Oz’ won’t top...
For my latest trip through the Netflix Instant Watch archives, I’ve dug up something new as well as something a little older. Seann William Scott shows off his talent on the ice while Tommy Lee Jones plays toy soldier.
Although the month of September will be peppered with some promising new movie releases, this week isn’t. Only two films open wide. I saw one at Sundance. The other, despite starring several very familiar faces, is completel...
I know, I know. Even though I’m giving Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ a positive review, so many people out there will loathe the film for being pretentious, long, slow and far from subtle. Unapologetically...
With the holidays also comes Oscar season, when mature dramas fill the screens to impress the Academy in hopes of winning a golden statuette. Two in particular seem like quite the stunners in almost every area, and their trailers ...