Weekend Movies: Age of Waiting for Ultron
Is the ‘Avengers’ sequel out yet? Only overseas but not in this country. We have to wait one more week.
Is the ‘Avengers’ sequel out yet? Only overseas but not in this country. We have to wait one more week.
The major selling point of ‘The Salvation’ is the image of Mads Mikkelsen holding a shotgun in the Old West. It’s a pretty damn great starting point, given that there are few tough-as-nails character actors aroun...
‘The Age of Adaline’ is a thoroughly ludicrous fantasy romance that should be impossible to take seriously. Yet the filmmakers somehow commit to the premise with enough full-hearted sincerity to make it strangely palat...
Some movie stars have pulled off the transition into directing with impressive results. However, when most stars step behind the camera, they tend to deliver multimillion dollar tributes to their own egos that audiences are forced...
Exploring the potential perils of artificial intelligence is sci-fi conceit almost as old as the genre itself. Yet it still seems fruitful for retellings as we inch closer towards that fictional concept becoming a reality. Alex Ga...
Poor John Travolta. Since he’s always been kind of odd-looking for a movie star, he should have transitioned in his later years into playing character parts as none-too-bright deadbeats. Unfortunately, his public persona bec...
Surprising no one, the latest ‘Fast and Furious’ installment continued to dominate the box office yet again this weekend. More importantly, it kept a terrible comedy and a gimmicky horror flick from the top spot.
A few potentially great movies hit the big screen this weekend. Unfortunately, I’m not talking about the ones getting wide releases.
Ever since Disney got into the nature documentary game, it was only a matter of time before we’d get an entire film dedicated to monkeys. Those lovable little scamps were made for the very particular brand of gentle animal h...
Horror movies tend thrive best when they’re defined by excess or restraint. ‘Unfriended’ falls into the restraint category, and the flick has a hell of a central gimmick to use as a selling point.
Few tones in all of filmmaking are more difficult to pull off than whimsy. One of the few directors who has managed to master that cutesy craft is Jean-Pierre Jeunet. (His ‘Amélie’ is the cinematic equivalent of a warm...
There’s a truly great movie buried somewhere in the disappointingly decent ‘True Story’. The tragic source material was an ideal springboard for a disturbing adult drama, and the central stunt-casting of Jonah Hi...