‘Unfriended’ Review: Unexpectedly Good
Horror movies tend thrive best when they’re defined by excess or restraint. ‘Unfriended’ falls into the restraint category, and the flick has a hell of a central gimmick to use as a selling point.
Horror movies tend thrive best when they’re defined by excess or restraint. ‘Unfriended’ falls into the restraint category, and the flick has a hell of a central gimmick to use as a selling point.
It’s been more than four months since we caught a fleeting glimpse of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ in the first teaser trailer. Not much else about the film leaked out after that, until this week’s Star W...
Few tones in all of filmmaking are more difficult to pull off than whimsy. One of the few directors who has managed to master that cutesy craft is Jean-Pierre Jeunet. (His ‘Amélie’ is the cinematic equivalent of a warm...
There’s a truly great movie buried somewhere in the disappointingly decent ‘True Story’. The tragic source material was an ideal springboard for a disturbing adult drama, and the central stunt-casting of Jonah Hi...
The continued endurance of dance movies is deeply bizarre to me. Even if a year passes without another lovingly ludicrous ‘Step Up’ sequel, we’ll get at least one ‘Step Up’ substitute to ensure that a...
The saga of the retro-style ‘Alien’ ReAction figures is long and requires much patience from fans. Nearly a year since it was first announced and opened for preorders, the Egg Chamber Action Playset has finally arrived...
Nicholas Sparks didn’t stand a chance against the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise, the latest entry of which is now racing toward a spot in the Top 5 highest-grossing movies of all time.
This weekend, as Clint Eastwood’s son Scott takes us for ‘The Longest Ride’ through some Nicholas Sparks drivel, we felt like musing about other children of celebrities who have attempted to follow their parents&...
A few very promising new movies are finally hitting the big screen this weekend. Unfortunately, they’re opening opposite a cinematic atrocity that just so happens to be the solitary wide release.
‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ debuted to acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival last spring before touring the rest of the 2014 film festival circuit to suck up the few remaining critical accolades left. Yet the international re...
‘Man Show’ motormouth Adam Carolla made a shockingly sincere movie debut with ‘The Hammer’ a few years ago, which sadly ended up underseen. It seemed unlikely that he’d ever make another movie until K...
I’ll say this about ‘The Longest Ride’: Not only does the latest bucket of Nicholas Sparks swill feature two intertwining love stories, but with a butt-numbing running time of 139 minutes, the experience feels li...