‘Furious 7’ Review: Magnificently Stupid
A parody movie mocking the ‘Fast and Furious’ series is on the way shortly, but can you help wondering why? There’s no way any parody could possibly be as absurd and hilarious as ‘Furious 7’. This lat...
A parody movie mocking the ‘Fast and Furious’ series is on the way shortly, but can you help wondering why? There’s no way any parody could possibly be as absurd and hilarious as ‘Furious 7’. This lat...
The Oscar bait prestige picture has become so ubiquitous in the Harvey Weinstein era that those movies have become just as formulaic and predictable as the mainstream Hollywood fare they’re supposed to provide escape from.
It’s a mystery to me how ‘Last Knights’ ever got made. Clearly there was money involved in the production and a lot of it. The cast is stacked with famous faces from around the world to maximize global audience a...
There’s a tragic, strange and often forgotten postscript to the Coen brothers’ masterpiece ‘Fargo’. The filmmakers put a “Based on a True Story” credit at the start of their movie as a wry in-jo...
Box office numbers have been down this year, but this weekend finally saw some action. The top two movies brought in nearly $89 million, which is especially impressive given that they received mostly negative reviews.
This weekend’s new movies will answer such questions as, “Does Will Ferrell still have any audience appeal?” and “Is DreamWorks Animation still struggling?”
The new feature by Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (‘Corpo celeste’) arrives on North American shores with the hype of having won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes. The award was well-deserved. ‘The Wonders’...
‘Boychoir’ has a very strange dichotomy. On the one hand, it’s a tediously predictable story about a lost boy with talent who finds acceptance in a prestigious choir of (you guessed it) boys. On the other hand, t...
You’ve gotta say this about ‘Get Hard’: At least it tries. The folks behind Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart’s “For the love of god, I don’t want to get raped in prison” comedy really wanted to...
‘Home’ is the latest candy-colored, family-friendly CGI babysitter and there really isn’t much more to say about it beyond that. Sure, it starts out with a pretty clever premise (taken from a popular childrenR...
So, here’s the thing with Britain: The class structure is out of control! Rich toffs rule the country, while the lower classes are stuck in a rut they’ll never emerge from. The divide runs so deep that the accents for ...
Something about the combination of sex and death seems to be endlessly endearing in the spooky little world of horror movies. It defined the entire genre for the stretch of the 1980s when slashers ruled the world and David Cronenb...