‘Girls Trip’ Review: An Oddly Serious Romp
Take a peek at any of the trailers or posters for ‘Girls Trip’ and you’ll think you’re being sold a wacky R-rated “girls behaving badly” comedy not unlike the movie ‘Rough Night’ tha...
Category Archives: At the Movies
‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ Review:
There used to be a thriving market of European filmmakers who made trashy exploitation movies for a global market. Sadly, Luc Besson is essentially the last man standing in this genre movie tradition. But he’s also one of th...
‘Kuso’ Review: WTF x 10
It was always safe to assume that the directorial debut of musician Flying Lotus (a.k.a. Steven Ellison) was going to be a little out there. That’s just his way. The actual film, ‘Kuso’, is somehow even more fuck...
‘A Ghost Story’ Review: Poetry in Bed Sheets
Writer/director David Lowery’s ‘A Ghost Story’ shouldn’t work. It’s an existential exploration of life, death, love, loss, memory and time, in which the main character is a ghost covered by a bed shee...
R.I.P. Martin Landau & George Romero
We lost a pair of screen legends over the weekend, one famous for working in front of the camera and one behind. Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau passed away on Saturday. He was followed on Sunday by filmmaker George Romero, the ...
Weekend Box Office: War Party
Much to my surprise, the apes squashed a spider this weekend. That’s right, more moviegoers opted to see the continuing prequelization of humanity’s fall to intelligent primates than Marvel Studios’ latest box of...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie of 1968
1968 was a pretty momentous year for film. Among other things, it gave us one of the greatest motion pictures ever made and launched an iconic franchise now on its ninth feature entry. What were your favorite movies from that year...
‘Mermaids’ Review: What It Means to Be a Fish Lady
Mermaids… they aren’t just the subject of a beloved Disney film or early 20th Century freak shows. They’re an almost inexplicably popular human myth that refuses to disappear. To this day, there are women who dream of ...
‘The Little Hours’ Review: Get Thee to a Nunnery
The success of ‘Bridesmaids’ spawned a trend of “gals behaving badly” comedies which have, for the most part, been amusing little larks. ‘The Little Hours’ comes with a hell of a twist. Those ga...
Weekend Movies: Render Unto Caesar That Which Is Caesar’s
The weekend after a major tentpole release is usually tame, but that’s not the case with this one. Although none stand a chance of dethroning ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’, three studios are going against the grain wi...
‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Review: Masterful Mo
Somewhere in between all the superhero sequels, ‘Star Wars’ spinoffs, and CGI talking animal silliness, the ‘Planet of the Apes’ reboot has become the most intelligent blockbuster franchise of recent years....
‘Past Life’ Review: Thoughtful Melodrama
Writer/director Avi Nesher’s ‘Past Life’ struggles under the weight of its own ambition. The filmmaker wants to make a suspenseful mystery thriller, but also hopes to create a complex character drama, a thoughtfu...