Weekend Movies: Clash of Titans
Three new wide release movies break out of the gate this weekend. Will one stand out above the others, or will ‘Deadpool’ decapitate the competition yet again?
Three new wide release movies break out of the gate this weekend. Will one stand out above the others, or will ‘Deadpool’ decapitate the competition yet again?
Fernando León de Aranoa’s latest feature chronicles the odd and frequently unexplored lives of foreign aid workers. It’s a messy and tonally inconsistent little flick. However, in this particular case that’s not ...
The title of Michael Moore’s latest documentary is deliberately and misleadingly provocative. At a quick glance, it’s easy to assume that this will be Moore’s all-out assault on American imperialism, calling out ...
John Hillcoat is a talented filmmaker. All of his movies so far (‘The Proposition’, ‘The Road’ and ‘Lawless’) show that he has a gritty voice and a certain skill with actors. However, his films ...
Alex Proyas’ career started so well. Things kicked off with the stylistically iconic (if deeply tragic) ‘The Crow’ and then Proyas seemed to find depth to match his style with the delightful mindfuck ‘Dark ...
Hollywood sure loves a sentimental sports bio-pic. You get the built-in drama of a sporting event and the crowd-pleasing fuzzies of a triumph-over-adversity story along with a celebrity protagonist that a famous actor can plug int...
In case you hadn’t been paying attention, the Academy Awards will air this Sunday night. Often, many people use the last few days before the ceremony to catch up with the Oscar nominated movies they missed. How many of this ...
Complex, thought-provoking, daring and bleakly funny in the most disturbingly possible ways, Pablo Larrain’s ‘The Club’ is a savage little intimate drama.
After a $132.4 million opening last weekend, it was a given that ‘Deadpool’ would retain the top spot on the box office charts. Despite slipping 59% week-over-week, the movie is still bringing in the dough and breaking...
The Oscars are just a week away. As happens most years, some of the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards are less deserving of awards and praise than others. Like some of these, for example.
Even though a couple of this weekend’s new movies look promising, none stands a chance competing against last week’s record-crushing opening for ‘Deadpool’.
‘Risen’ might be marketed as an epic, released on a wide scale, and directed by Kevin ‘Waterworld’ Reynolds, but make no mistake, this is church basement Christsploitation.