‘The Founder’ Review: Great Script, Great Cast, Misse
‘The Founder’ is a good film very much worth watching. Unfortunately, it’s all too clear that the movie derives from a great script that wasn’t quite given the directorial touch it deserved.
Category Archives: At the Movies
R.I.P. William Peter Blatty
It appears that 2017 has no intention of going easy on us in the celebrity death department. One of the year’s earliest victims is author and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, creator of ‘The Exorcist‘, who passed ...
Weekend Box Office: Hidden in Plain Sight
After last week’s surprise Monday announcement that ‘Hidden Figures’ had dethroned ‘Rogue One’, it’s no surprise that the female-led historical drama took the top spot at the box office again th...
Weekend Roundtable: 2017 Movies You’re Most Skeptical About
Last week, we started the year with an optimistic look at the movies we most anticipate for 2017. This week, we turn grumpy again. Which of the year’s upcoming movies do you worry may turn out to be dogs?
Weekend Movies: Lucky 13
It’s scary how so many good movies are accessible this Friday the 13th. While three new films debut in wide release, the real excitement comes from the three smaller titles finally expanding nationwide.
‘Mostly Sunny’ Review: Mostly Interesting
Sunny Leone is a curious pop culture figure. She was once one of the biggest adult film stars in that dirty little secret of an industry and is now striving for mainstream success in India as a Reality star, musician and Bollywood...
‘Monster Trucks’ Review: Straight to the Scrapyard
Here’s a huge surprise: a movie about a truck with a monster in it called ‘Monster Trucks’ sucks. I know you’re shocked. I can’t believe it either. Somehow, we’ll get through this together.
‘Live by Night’ Review: Sleep by Cinema
On a purely technical level, ‘Live by Night’ is probably the finest “film de Ben Affleck” to date. The period gangster melodrama is filled with beauty shots and carefully crafted costumes and eye-grabbing l...
‘Patriots Day’ Review: Docu-phony
Peter Berg’s latest feature, ‘Patriots Day’, does enough right that its flaws are easy enough to ignore, if not excuse. It’s likely as good a mainstream film about the Boston Marathon bombing as was likely ...
’20th Century Women’ Review: Pointed Portraiture
’20th Century Women’ makes a strong case for filmmakers indulgently wallowing in memory and autobiography. It’s a sweet and touching little picture that suggests writer/director Mike Mills might just be transform...
The Trailer Park: Horror Is in the Air Tonight
This Feburary, celebrate the month of love and romance by cozying up next to that special someone and holding on tight while watching some terrifyingly bad horror movies.
2017 Golden Globe Winners
In most years, the final award given out at the Golden Globes (Best Motion Picture – Drama) is the most important prize of the evening and the strongest Oscar predictor. This year, however, was all about the Comedy/Musical categor...