’12 Strong’ Review: Pretty Weak
‘American Sniper’ wasn’t a film that I was fond of at the time, but its legacy is something that I particularly dislike. Thanks to the success of Clint Eastwood’s rousing “kill all the evil brown peop...
‘American Sniper’ wasn’t a film that I was fond of at the time, but its legacy is something that I particularly dislike. Thanks to the success of Clint Eastwood’s rousing “kill all the evil brown peop...
After the success of ’13 Hours’ and ‘American Sniper’, it looks like January is becoming a hot month for patriotic war films. This week brings the declassified true story of the first soldiers to enter Afgh...
It wasn’t that long ago that we finally celebrated the end of Nicholas Sparks’ reign of terror. Tragically, his spirit lives on. In ‘Forever My Girl’ we now have an unofficial Nicholas Sparks stink pile. Th...
A surprise winner of the Best Foreign Language Film trophy at the Golden Globes, ‘In the Fade’ is not a particularly easy or inspiring movie that one might expect to triumph at that ceremony. Harsh and even cruel to au...
‘Proud Mary’ tries to position itself as an homage to the empowered and insane 1970s Blaxploitation genre, mixed in with some contemporary female-driven actioners like ‘Atomic Blonde’. That’s somethin...
Even with three new wide releases and one major expansion stealing away audiences, the ‘Jumanji’ sequel was able to retain the top spot at the box office for the second consecutive week. The nearest competition was $9 ...
As we look out over the calendar, a whole year’s worth of movies await us. Some will be great, and some will be awful. Let’s hope for the best. What new movies coming out in 2018 are you most anticipating?
Many of the best documentaries are true-life dramas that the filmmakers never would have predicted would unfold when they began production. They’re just lucky enough to be in the right place in the right time. Alon and Shaul...
You wouldn’t think it was possible to make a movie purely about mountains, and you especially wouldn’t think it was possible for that movie to be dogged down by the pretentions of the person who made it. Nonetheless, t...
This weekend brings two British national treasures back to the big screen: Paddington Bear and Liam Neeson. One is warmly welcome, while the other is a little worn out. Both debut in wide release alongside a female contract killer...
2014’s ‘Paddington’ was a little miracle of a movie. Contemporary filmmakers were able to take Michael Bond’s dated and almost impossibly earnest creation and make it work for modern audiences thanks to jus...
One of the great guilty pleasures of 21st Century cinema has been watching Liam Neeson transform from prestige picture headliner into down-and-dirty action flick badass. Ever since ‘Taken’, Neeson has been the one acti...