Viper Club Review: No Bite
Even in our current state of near-constant wartime, many victims of war still haven’t had their stories told on screen. We got a hint of what it’s like to be a modern war correspondent in 2016’s Whiskey Tango Fox...
Even in our current state of near-constant wartime, many victims of war still haven’t had their stories told on screen. We got a hint of what it’s like to be a modern war correspondent in 2016’s Whiskey Tango Fox...
Prison isn’t a great place. We know this. Prison is also a business, and that business is booming, so it’s not as if things are going to change. Director Matthew Cooke’s sensationalistic and celebrity-filled (sta...
Last year’s ‘Bad Moms’ felt like a joke pitch that went too far and somehow became a movie. Yet, thanks to a perfectly assembled cast and a script that had enough laughs to overcome a parade of clichés, the comed...
‘3 Generations’ played at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 under the title ‘About Ray’ with a planned release just days after its premiere. It was pulled and now it’s being reluctantly ...
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford faced massive resistance from movie moguls when they shopped around ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?‘ in 1961. “I wouldn’t give you a dime for those two old broads,” Jac...
The first sign that something might be wrong with ‘Spark: A Space Tail’ is that subtitle. Did you see how they swapped in “tail” for “tale”? That’s because this is about monkeys and itR...
I guess ‘American Feud Story’ wouldn’t have sounded right as a title. Producer Ryan Murphy’s latest anthology drama combines a little bit of horror with a little true crime to detail some of history’s...
‘The Meddler’ gives that special cheesy genre about overbearing mothers a good name. You know the type – those movies where a well-meaning but impossibly pushy mother gradually learns to give her children control of th...
The success streak that Melissa McCarthy has enjoyed since ‘Bridesmaides’ couldn’t last forever. ‘Tammy’ may be her first outright failure as a star vehicle. The comedy isn’t a complete disaster...
This weekend’s box office results were all over the place. Only two movies finished where they were predicted to, notably ‘Identity Thief’, which climbed back into the top spot after being dethroned by ‘Die...
I was thoroughly impressed with Ric Roman Waugh’s ‘Snitch’, but for different reasons than you might expect. Inspired by true events, the film produces a sense of fear and hopelessness rather than the cheesy, lig...
After a loaded holiday weekend, this one seems pretty dismal in comparison. Perhaps you might want to play some last-minute Oscar catch-up instead of seeing any of this week’s mild releases.