Weekend Box Office: Soft Focus
Terrible storms throughout the nation have once again taken a toll on the domestic box office. Both of the weekend’s new wide releases debuted lower than anticipated, but some Oscar winners scored a nice little bump.
Terrible storms throughout the nation have once again taken a toll on the domestic box office. Both of the weekend’s new wide releases debuted lower than anticipated, but some Oscar winners scored a nice little bump.
Does a bad ending ruin an otherwise good movie? Can you forgive a film that stumbles in its last act if you enjoyed the rest of it? This week’s Roundtable is all about movies that come so close to greatness, but fail to stic...
Which sounds more appealing: yet another con man caper flick that leaves you wondering who you can trust, or a short thriller featuring an interesting cast in a story that you saw unfold on the big screen decades ago?
Céline Sciamma’s latest feature was retitled ‘Girlhood’ for its North American release specifically to capitalize on the popularity of that award-winning Richard Linklater movie that you might have heard about. I...
Translating a play to film certainly sounds like an easy task. After all, if the stage-bound material works you should just be able to point some cameras at it and call it a movie, right? Well, it’s not that simple. The medi...
Back when I first saw ‘The Duke of Burgundy’ at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, it felt like a delightfully naughty art house romp. In the post ’50 Shades’ world that we all unfortunately live in, ...
Pretty much as soon as the sound era started in movies, the con man has been charming and lying his way into audience’s hearts. It makes sense; the art of the con is all about putting on a show and making magic with words, s...
The ‘Paranormal Activity’ franchise can be blamed for many problems with the current state of the horror genre, but one definite win to come out of that manufactured phenomenon was the creation of Blumhouse Productions...
The romantic comedy is a fickle beast for any filmmaker to master. The genre has a structure that must be maintained, and even though there are theoretically two ways for these worn-out stories to end, one will always win out: Hap...
It seems like, ever since the Oscars aired this past Sunday, all I’ve heard are endless complaints about how bad Neil Patrick Harris was as host. Most of these criticisms seem unfair to me, and some are just plain mystifying...
Though you undoubtedly had little reason to notice, the Oscars actually weren’t the only movie awards handed out over the weekend. As per tradition, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Razzies both continued to demonstrate...
As expected, ‘Fifty Shades’ topped the box office for a second weekend. However, it did so with a huge week-to-week dropoff. For better or worse, this weekend’s new releases also defied expectations.