‘A United Kingdom’ is the type of movie designed to make audiences leave the theater pleased with themselves for confirming the basic values that they brought into the screening. It takes a fairly fascinating slice of ...
Three new movies took the stage over this President’s Day weekend, yet none of them managed to steal the spotlight. In fact, none of them even came close.
When we’re sick, we entrust them with our health, sometimes even with our lives. In real life, doctors swear an oath to Do No Harm. In TV and movies, such as this week’s release of ‘A Cure for Wellness’, th...
‘Fist Fight’ is yet another studio comedy that has a decent premise, a pair of strong leads, a handful of hilarious supporting players, and then a plot that is essentially filler. It has some laughs, but they all come ...
For more than two decades now, Louis Theroux has been one of the most intriguing documentarians of America even though his movies rarely screen in the country. The remarkably empathetic and ever-curious Brit was the perfect guy to...
Last weekend delivered two great films, but February is now once again back to punishing us. This weekend brings a monster/siege picture of epic proportions, a comedy with an ’80s flare, and an American thriller that oozes a...
‘A Cure for Wellness’ is the latest film from Gore Verbinski. Like all of his other movies, it looks absolutely stunning. Unfortunately, after some early promise, the bloated thriller descends into tedious cliché and r...
With China now the second largest market for Hollywood blockbusters and the country’s own industry cranking out massive spectacles that tend to be huge hits everywhere other than North America, it was only a matter of time b...
There are many ways to do a movie about the insane human cost of war that don’t involve a second of combat. Robert Altman’s ‘M*A*S*H’ famously substituted gory operation scenes in favor of gun battles to un...
The Sundance hit ‘XX’ has an easy selling point. It’s an anthology of horror shorts directed exclusively by women, who generally don’t get many shots behind the camera in the horror genre. As usual with the...
This weekend’s box office was dominated by a trio of new releases. In addition, this was also the highest-grossing weekend of the year so far. Each of the new movies happened to be a franchise sequel or spinoff, but only one...
Valentine’s Day is coming up and there’s a ‘Fifty Shades’ movie in theaters this weekend. That these two things are related is disheartening. Sadly, Christian and Anastasia’s relationship actually isn...
