2013 Emmy Winners
Remember all that hoopla from earlier this year about how the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences made the bold move of nominating the online-only Netflix series ‘House of Cards’ and ‘Arrested Development&...
Remember all that hoopla from earlier this year about how the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences made the bold move of nominating the online-only Netflix series ‘House of Cards’ and ‘Arrested Development&...
[Editor’s Note: Luke is out this week. Filling in with the box office update is our new contributor Jack Lilburn. Please give him a warm welcome. –JZ]
SPOILER ALERT! This week’s Roundtable is all about movies ruined by their lousy endings. It stands to reason, therefore, that we’re about to give away those endings. Scan the list of bolded titles and consider yourself...
This week offers a perfect example of counter-programming. On the one hand, we have an R-rated, hard-to-watch tale of two fathers coping with the kidnapping of their daughters. On the other, there’s a PG-13 dance drama. And ...
Denis Villeneuve (director of the Oscar-nominated ‘Incendies‘) has given us one hell of a terrifying and highly suspenseful ride with his first major Hollywood film, ‘Prisoners’. The movie has an amazing ca...
For the umpteenth time this year, a tiny horror movie has destroyed another title that should have done much better. With the genre still going strong, don’t expect the scary streak to end anytime soon.
Yes, I know, it’s Friday the 13th today, but we’ve done other Roundtables on horror movie topics in the past. Let’s try to think out of the box this week. With the upcoming ‘Alien’ retro action figure...
This summer was one for the books. Tentpoles flopped while horror thrived. Fittingly, this Friday the 13th offers another horror sequel, as well as a mobster comedy infused with action. Which will you choose?
Director Luc Besson sure must love Martin Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’. His new film ‘The Family’ is a dark and ultra-violent comedy that plays like a follow-up to that movie, if it showed Henry Hill’...
Given Hollywood’s current passion for rehashing old favorites instead of coming up with new or original ideas, it’s not shocking that someone has tried to modernize another ’80s action classic. Still, I’m a...
With only one wide release, there was no question about what would open in the top spot at the box office this weekend. The real question was whether it would earn enough to make the threequel worthwhile. Unfortunately, it’s...
This week, Vin Diesel brings his bullet-headed antihero Riddick back to movie theater screens, presumably to kick butt and growl a lot, not necessarily in that order. This puts us in mind of other famous cinema badasses, some of w...