2017 Golden Globe Nominations
As it inevitably must every year at this time, awards season has begun. This morning, actors Don Cheadle, Laura Dern and Anna Kendrick announced the 2017 Golden Globe nominations for movies and TV.
Category Archives: At the Movies
Weekend Box Office: Still Sailing
With ‘Moana’ topping the charts for a third consecutive week and ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ opening this weekend, it’s likely that Disney’s record year will include reigning the box office f...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Christmas Comedies
Christmas is once again almost upon us, which means that it’s the season to watch some Christmas movies. I can’t speak for everyone, but in my home, the comedies get a lot more mileage than the melodramas. What are you...
Weekend Movies: Party Foul
This weekend brings three wide release movies – two that you’ve heard of and one that you haven’t – and an indie musical that’s hoping to sweep the Academy off its feet. Unfortunately, for the three I’ve se...
‘Office Christmas Party’ Review: Skip It for Santa
Hollywood holiday movies don’t come much more generic than ‘Office Christmas Party’. If the painfully impersonal title didn’t give the game away, this is cookie-cutter comedy filmmaking at its most frustrat...
‘Miss Sloane’ Review: Sub-Sorkin
‘Miss Sloane’ is one of those movies that exists and (occasionally) thrives purely on a single star performance. Jessica Chastain has emerged as one of the great actresses of her era, and it was likely her clout and go...
‘Lion’ Review: King of the Weepies
The end of the year is a time for “based on a true story” weepies designed to keep the Kleenex industry in business and gobble up easy award nominations. Most of them stink and work only on the easily manipulated and/o...
‘The Other Half’ Review: Painful Pining, Losing Love
‘The Other Half’ is a certain type of destructive love story where no matter how much joy is visible on screen, viewers are acutely aware how wrong and impossible it is. Anchored by a pair of incredible performances, i...
Weekend Box Office: You’re Welcome
Light on new releases, there wasn’t much change in this weekend’s box office Top 10. Aside from two older movies holding over very well, most titles performed almost exactly as expected.
‘Sky on Fire’ Review: Old School HK Action (and Melod
Ringo Lam was one of the great filmmakers of Hong Kong’s golden age of bullet-fu action, probably best known for ‘City of Fire’, the movie Quentin Tarantino infamously lifted a variety of plot points from for ...
Weekend Movies: Ladies First
Because Thanksgiving shelled out so many big movies, only two weak features open in wide release today. One is a sugary sweet, faith-based Christmas picture. The other is a PG-13 horror flick. Fortunately, Fox Searchlight is also ...
‘Things to Come’ Review: Subtly Moving
Shortly after headlining Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Elle‘, Isabelle Huppert returns in a far softer mode with ‘Things to Come’, yet is no less impressive. The latest film by Mia Hansen-Love (‘Eden’...