Weekend Movies: Blind Justice
After being the subject of rumors galore, the follow-up to last year’s ‘Batman v. Superman’ is finally here. Whether it will have any clout in the U.S. is up in the air. However, that doesn’t really matter ...
Category Archives: At the Movies
‘Wonder’ Review: Why Isn’t Eric Stoltz Playing
‘Wonder’ is designed for the express purpose of making you cry, and co-writer/director Peter Chbosky (‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’) is prepared to suck those tears out of your face by any means possibl...
‘Mudbound’ Review: Potent, If Overambitious
In only her second feature as a director, Dee Rees (‘Pariah’) shoots high and mighty with ‘Mudbound’. The film is both intimate and epic in scale, hoping to tell a very specific story with broad implication...
‘Justice League’ Review: A Superhero Mashup/Mess Up
Warner Bros.’ big, bloated ‘Justice League’ has been the subject of so many sneering editorials and clickbait news stories about reshoots that it’s almost a shock to see the movie even make it to theaters. ...
‘Blade of the Immortal’ Review: A Bloody Good Time
Even the most ardent fans of cult Japanese schlock auteur Takashi Miike might be shocked to learn that ‘Blade of the Immortal’ is his 100th movie as a director. That’s insane. The guy works at a fever pace, crank...
Weekend Box Office: Ragnarok n’ Roll
As expected, hordes of moviegoers opted again to see Marvel’s latest superhero flick, driving the third ‘Thor’ movie to greater heights in its first ten days than either of its predecessors saw over their entire ...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite “All-Star Cast” Movies
For his big, glossy remake of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’, Kenneth Branagh brought together a hell of an ensemble of A-List talent. Our Roundtable this week looks at other movies promising the proverbial “all-...
‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ Review: M
‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ is a righteous and angry film. It deals with an unsolved and dismissed crime that rocked a small town, along with the people left harmed in its wake. However, if Martin McDon...
Weekend Movies: Off the Rails
Just like your local Walmart, movie theaters are putting out their Christmas content well in advance of the holiday season. We’re ten days into November and we already have our second festive feature of the year.
‘Daddy’s Home 2’ Review: Passably Bland
There are laughs in ‘Daddy’s Home 2’, just like the original – enough to make it feel like a reasonably entertaining night at the movies. There’s not much substance or purpose, though. In fact, the whole th...
‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (2017) Review: Murder
In the grand scheme of movies that needed to exist in 2017, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ ranks somewhere near the bottom of the list. There have been a variety of adaptations of this Agatha Christie whodunnit over th...
‘LBJ’ Review: Mildly Better than the Makeup
The first thing that has to be stated about’ LBJ’ is that the makeup Woody Harrelson has been shoved into to play the titular President is absolutely horrible. It looks like a Halloween mask with moving lips. Big rubbe...