While the last few weeks were jam-packed with three or four major new movies each, this weekend only offers one. It’s not uncommon for highly-anticipated films to open alone. However, this one is the third in a franchise tha...
When Ron Howard and Tom Hanks adapted the best Dan Brown books, the results were pretty dumb and dull movies that mostly made their fortunes off brand name recognition. Now that they’re getting into weaker entries in Brown&#...
The name Christine Chubbuck may be known mainly to those with the most morbid of curiosities. Chubbuck was a news reporter for a small Florida TV station in the 1970s who became so fed up with her station’s “If it blee...
One of the most playfully twisted filmmakers of his or frankly any era, Park Chan-wook is a naughty boy who enjoys playing games with his audience. Though he specializes in genre fare, Park’s films are never predictable or t...
This weekend brought some surprising twists. Chief among them, Tyler Perry’s latest comedy beat out Tom Cruise’s new action flick, which was expected to win the box office.
Halloween is almost upon us, which makes now a great time to binge on horror movies. Sadly, some famous horror flicks, even a few considered classics, don’t live up to the hype around them. What popular horror movies let you...
‘Jack Reacher’ might have made buckets of cash a few Christmases ago because the Tom Cruise production starring Tom Cruise featured Tom Cruise beating up bad guys in Tom Cruisian fashion. However, it wasn’t very ...
Lars Kraume’s ‘The People vs. Fritz Bauer’ is an intriguing film from compelling subject matter, but isn’t quite as strong as it could or should be.
By all accounts, Ewan McGregor is a great guy. Talented, charming and attractive, the actor is nearly impossible not to like. When he decided to make his directorial debut, you have to admire that he attempted something as ambitio...
When the majority of this weekend’s new movies look pretty good, it’s going to be difficult deciding what to see. Even though there appears to be clear winners and duds in this mix, you’ll definitely want to do s...
Last year’s ‘Ouija‘ was one of the worst and laziest horror movies released by a major studio in the past decade. The new prequel ‘Ouija: Origin of Evil’ is one of the best. The reason: Mike Flanagan....
‘Keeping Up with the Joneses’ is cute. If you’ve seen the trailer or even know the premise, the story doesn’t offer much in the way of surprises. It’s pretty standard suburbanite lameness humor with a...
