Despite three new movies and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ snapping at its heels, ‘The Boss Baby’ held the top spot at the box office for a second week. Each of the new releases saw decent returns, but with ‘...
In a week of dishearteningly empty Hollywood hokum, leave it to the arty leanings of France’s François Ozon (‘8 Women’, ‘Swimming Pool’) to take a classic Hollywood production and nurture it into some...
Terrence Malick used to disappear for decades between movies and then return with something magical that was worth the wait. Sadly, he no longer seems interested in taking his time planning a film or even having much of an idea of...
Disney’s expensive ‘Beauty and the Beast’ remake brought audiences out in droves last month. With the summer season now seemingly starting in April, next weekend delivers ‘The Fate of Furious’. The mi...
Yes, another ‘Smurfs’ movie. No, it’s not good. I know that must come as a shock. At least this one is entirely animated, so it spares viewers the cringe factor of watching recognizable actors reach career lows w...
Hey, you know something? Old guys… they’re just like us! I know they might seem cranky and dated, but in the end they can do anything. Even rob a bank. Can you imagine? Wouldn’t that be hilarious? No. The answer is no....
Eight years ago, Australian writer/director Sean Byrne delivered an instant cult classic with ‘The Loved Ones’, a movie that finally answered the question: “What would happen if John Hughes had founded the tortur...
Walter Hill was once one of the great exploitation filmmakers capable of delivering tersely entertaining action romps with a little bit of intellect beneath the surface. Sadly, those days are over. Hill’s latest feature, ...
One of this weekend’s new movies managed to do the impossible. Not only did it wildly out-gross expectations, it put down the Beast. The week’s other wide release underperformed, while each of last week’s titles ...
The Hollywood studios love remaking popular foreign movies almost as much as they love remaking their own old movies. Sometimes this works out well, but often it doesn’t. In this week’s Roundtable, we look at examples ...
For those who love the more serious and deranged end of the 1980s horror movie spectrum, ‘The Void’ will play as a welcome and gruesome return to a bygone era. Produced by members of the filmmaker collective Astron-6, ...
How do you condense an entire life down to 500 words? Who do you decide to write an obituary for in advance, assuming their death might come soon? How do you maintain any level of happiness when dealing with death all day long? Th...
