Weekend Movies: Stupid Does As Stupid Is
With only one new wide release movie this weekend, get ready for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ to win the box office war again.
With only one new wide release movie this weekend, get ready for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ to win the box office war again.
Proving once and for all that wrestling is the creepiest of all sports, ‘Foxcatcher’ offers a darkly twisted take on the awards bait picture. It’s a handsomely mounted production filled with movie stars acting ha...
David Cronenberg is a filmmaker with predictably singular cinematic fetishes and obsessions. Yet beyond those ticks that mark his unique directing style, his interests have been hard to pin down over his last few movies. Seemingly...
[Editor’s Note: New theatrical releases for the next couple of weeks look like pretty slim pickings. Fortunately, Phil is currently attending the Toronto International Film Festival to scope out some potentially interesting ...
Labor Day traditionally marks the end of the summer movie season. Even with that behind us, it’s likely that summer movies will dominate the box office for weeks to come – especially if the first batch of fall movies are so ...
Yes, new movies are opening this Labor Day weekend – but who cares about those when you can go see ‘Ghostbusters’ on the big screen instead?
‘As Above So Below’ is yet another Found-Footage horror movie, but at least this one has an interesting hook and some genuine scares. Pulling audiences deep into the genuinely frightening underground catacombs of Paris...
Unless you’re Sir Sean Connery, playing James Bond comes with a curse. Will you be one of the biggest stars in the world for the duration of the series? Probably. How will your career go afterwards? In a word: Struggle. Pier...
Over the years, quite a few filmmakers have taken cracks at nailing Elmore Leonard adaptations on the big screen, but very few have been successful (three to be exact: ‘Get Shorty’, ‘Jackie Brown’ and ̵...
We live in an era with a seemingly endless diversity of choices for quality television programming. Yet judging by the results of last night’s Emmy Awards, it would appear that most voting members of the Television Academy o...
On the fourth weekend of their release, those a-holes known as the Guardians of the Galaxy jumped back to the top of the box office with $17.6 million, shoving aside a lot of newer competition to get there. Who saw this coming?
Going to the movies is a mainstay of the dating ritual in modern society. Yet not every movie that happens to be playing in theaters when you make a date is necessarily appropriate date movie material. In this week’s Roundta...