Weekend Box Office: British Occupation
As well as this weekend’s new kids’ movie played on Friday, it couldn’t keep up its momentum on Saturday or Sunday, allowing ‘Dunkirk’ to easily retain the top spot at the box office. Similarly, thank...
Category Archives: At the Movies
Weekend Roundtable: Worst Animated Movies
Not every animated movie is destined to go down as a children’s classic. Perhaps this is just me being overly judgmental again, but this week’s theatrical release of ‘The Emoji Movie’ doesn’t look lik...
Weekend Movies :(
Leading into it, this weekend seemed promising to me. For one, there’s a female-led action flick coming to us from one of the co-directors of ‘John Wick’. Secondly, Sony’s awful-looking kids’ movie wa...
‘The Emoji Movie’ Review: Even Worse than You’d
It was always safe to assume that ‘The Emoji Movie’ would be bad. Basing an entire animated film on the little winky faces that you text to friends when you’re too drunk to think up actual words is about as artis...
‘Atomic Blonde’ Review: Chilly Neon Noir
Cold War spy angst and goofy old-school physical action don’t exactly sound like comfortable bedfellows, but ‘John Wick’ co-director and future ‘Deadpool 2’ director David Leitch thought he’d gi...
‘Lady Macbeth’ Review: Look Like the Innocent Flower
In no way connected to Shakespeare beyond hinting at the psychosis to come (and even that’s a bit of a misdirect), ‘Lady Macbeth’ takes the sumptuous visual trappings of a British period drama and uses them to we...
Weekend Box Office: Sinking the Competition
This weekend showed the possibility of two trends coming true: Effects-driven blockbusters will decline and original content will thrive. Christopher Nolan’s war film and the female-led crude comedy both outgrossed expectati...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movies About World War II
The Second World War was perhaps the most momentous and world-changing historical event to occur during the era in which motion pictures have existed. Naturally, it’s been a popular subject to make movies about – hundreds of...
The ‘Dunkirk’ 70mm IMAX Experience
After seeing ‘Dunkirk’ on a digital IMAX screen, I gathered a couple friends, hopped in my car and road-tripped over 500 miles one way just to watch it in the rare format in which Christopher Nolan intended it to be se...
‘Dunkirk’ Review: Anxiety-Inducing Action
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ has a summer blockbuster release date because that’s the tentpole template within which the filmmaker works. However, as viscerally thrilling and technically stunning as the fi...
‘The Black Prince’ Review: An Amateur Hour and a Half
‘The Black Prince’ thoughtfully explores a forgotten (yet important) piece of colonial history. Written and directed with sincerity by star Kavi Raz, it’s clearly a passion project for the actor-turned-filmmaker ...
Weekend Movies: Totally Trippy
The back-to-back busy weekends continue with three big new movies arriving in theaters. While this could be a hectic weekend at the box office, I have a feeling that things won’t go too well for any of the three.