Welcome to October. Cue the week-after-week onslaught of movies vying for Oscar attention. The year-end movie season begins now. If you’ve been paying attention to the notable filmmakers that keep throwing their titles into ...
Some bad movies remind you how good another movie was. ‘The Girl on the Train’ is one of those. This marital murder melodrama based on a bestseller is remarkably reminiscent of ‘Gone Girl’ and likely only e...
Here’s a tricky one. When ‘The Birth of a Nation’ premiered at Sundance this spring it was instantly hailed as an early Oscar favorite and sold for $17.5 million to Fox Searchlight. Then some deeply troubling new...
‘Denial’ might boast intriguing subject matter and a hell of a cast, but the movie also proves that good intentions can easily be undone by poor storytelling. The movie is dullsville – dry, predictable and preachy in w...
One of the strangest stories to ever slip out of the insanity of North Korea was the tale of how Kim Jong-il once kidnapped a director and actress from South Korea and forced them to make movies for the state. That’s the sor...
One year ago at this time, ‘The Martian’ tore up the box office. Even the combined debut totals for this weekend’s two biggest releases couldn’t come close to matching that movie’s numbers.
Something tells me that this weekend’s theatrical release of the heist comedy ‘Masterminds’ won’t be a classic for the ages. Let’s look instead at some heist movies that better stand the test of time.
This weekend’s new movies are quite peculiar. Each title feels like it should be a huge studio-backed event, yet not one of them seems to be receiving much in the way attention or promotion.
If nothing else, Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson is one clever SOB. The writer/director/star of the cult comedy web series ‘Nirvana the Band the Show’ and the rather brilliant school shooting flick ‘The Dirties&#...
‘Masterminds’ is just a little bit too weird for its own good. That’ll be exactly what makes the proud few who fall for this collection of eccentricity to fall deeply and what will drive everyone else away.
At this point, it’s almost difficult to remember that Tim Burton once used to be one of the most excitingly unpredictable and creative filmmakers in Hollywood. Today, he mostly just latches onto popular properties, tosses a ...
Based on the underreported human tragedy behind the infamous 2010 BP oil spill, ‘Deepwater Horizon’ is mainstream boom-boom entertainment with a heart done right. It’s thrilling spectacle just grounded enough to ...
