Good Boys Review: Super-Young Superbad
Sixth grade can be a weird time for kids. Good Boys makes light of that awkward phase with a lot of humor, but to mixed results. While it’s all about young kids, this is most definitely not a movie for kids.
Sixth grade can be a weird time for kids. Good Boys makes light of that awkward phase with a lot of humor, but to mixed results. While it’s all about young kids, this is most definitely not a movie for kids.
Though I’m not sure how many people still play the now decade-old puzzle game Angry Birds, the creators have somehow managed to make a serviceable animated comedy for kids out of the source material. You read that right: The...
Horror films made for kids can still be scary. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark goes a step beyond the recent spate of Young Adult book adaptations and brings some honest frights to the screen.
Mike Wallace Is Here is a mostly fluffy documentary on the famed 60 Minutes host and interviewer. Though Wallace was known for being tough on his subjects, this bio avoids those tactics altogether.
Some films are not about character revelations or plot. Sometimes, you’re merely fed information and allowed the space to come to your own conclusions. Chiwawa chooses to present the world as a messy moving target, without e...
More often than not, horror lies in the unknown. In rare occurrences, like those shown in 1BR, knowing everything is even scarier.
Measuring your expectations for the fifth entry into any horror franchise is just good common sense. Keeping low expectations for the latest Critters movie, the non-theatrically released Critters Attack!, is good self-preservation...
Capturing mental health issues on screen without victimization or exploitation may feel like a fool’s errand. Swallow is not a foolish film, and its gamble pays off handsomely.
Putting a new twist on a classic setup, Trespassers asks you to wonder how you would react if your Airbnb was the setting for a home invasion horror thriller. The movie walks a well trodden path, but a few enhancements in lighting...
Mismatched buddy-cop comedies go way back to the dawn of cinema. Stuber will never enter the history books as one of the greats, but a few jokes save it from being a total loss.
The latest buzzy release on Netflix is far from the usual Adam Sandler comedy or true crime documentary. This weekend’s autoplay title is instead a 15-minute collaboration between director Paul Thomas Anderson and musician T...
All eyes have been on director Ari Aster after his debut feature, Hereditary, knocked the wind out of horror audiences last year. His sophomore creation, Midsommar, is an entirely different approach to unsettling cinema, with more...