Weekend Roundtable: Alternate ‘Star Wars’ Titles
When Disney and Lucasfilm announced last week that the title of J.J. Abrams’ upcoming ‘Star Wars’ sequel will be ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ (with no ‘Episode VII’ in between, apparentl...
When Disney and Lucasfilm announced last week that the title of J.J. Abrams’ upcoming ‘Star Wars’ sequel will be ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ (with no ‘Episode VII’ in between, apparentl...
This light weekend offers up very little fanfare to compete with last week’s holdovers ‘Big Hero 6’ and ‘Interstellar’, but has some nice selections in limited release.
If one were to script an idealized version of an inspirational documentary, chances are that it still wouldn’t come out as perfectly as ‘Keep on Keepin’ On’. This doc checks all the right boxes to achieve a...
If nothing else, ‘Beyond the Lights’ succeeds in exploring a few important themes regarding how women are misused and abused by the entertainment industry. The movie deserves some attention for addressing these issues ...
‘Dumb and Dumber To’ is pretty much guaranteed to get bad reviews. So did the first one, even though it’s now considered a comedy classic. Why? Well, because it’s stupid, nonsensical, lowest common denomina...
Of all the iconic cinema monsters, werewolves have the fewest classic movies. I always get a little excited when a new werewolf movie comes along because there’s so much more untapped potential than yet another vampire or zo...
‘Rosewater’ is a pretty strong directorial debut, but since it’s the directorial debut of ‘Daily Show’ host Jon Stewart it’s going to face a little extra scrutiny. Fair enough, anyone that big a...
Both of this weekend’s new wide releases were produced for the same budget ($165 million) and were expected to close at around the same mark, but audiences made their decisions and one surprisingly edged a bit ahead of the o...
This weekend, after you’ve come back from seeing Christopher Nolan’s new space travel opus ‘Interstellar’ at the theater, perhaps you might be interested in checking out some underrated sci-fi gems you̵...
Call a babysitter. Clear the calendar. This weekend’s two wide releases are not to be missed and not to be spoiled.
Some documentary profiles exist because their subjects have done something extraordinary that deserves to be shown to the world. Others exist because the subject is a delusional narcissistic idiot convinced that he’s done so...
Hard as it might be to believe, the tensest movie of the year is a documentary primarily dedicated to two-to-four people sitting quietly in a hotel room. Like all great documentaries, Laura Poitras’ ‘Citizenfour’...