Weekend Movies: Flatlining
Which sounds more appealing: yet another con man caper flick that leaves you wondering who you can trust, or a short thriller featuring an interesting cast in a story that you saw unfold on the big screen decades ago?
Which sounds more appealing: yet another con man caper flick that leaves you wondering who you can trust, or a short thriller featuring an interesting cast in a story that you saw unfold on the big screen decades ago?
Céline Sciamma’s latest feature was retitled ‘Girlhood’ for its North American release specifically to capitalize on the popularity of that award-winning Richard Linklater movie that you might have heard about. I...
Translating a play to film certainly sounds like an easy task. After all, if the stage-bound material works you should just be able to point some cameras at it and call it a movie, right? Well, it’s not that simple. The medi...
Back when I first saw ‘The Duke of Burgundy’ at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, it felt like a delightfully naughty art house romp. In the post ’50 Shades’ world that we all unfortunately live in, ...
Pretty much as soon as the sound era started in movies, the con man has been charming and lying his way into audience’s hearts. It makes sense; the art of the con is all about putting on a show and making magic with words, s...
The ‘Paranormal Activity’ franchise can be blamed for many problems with the current state of the horror genre, but one definite win to come out of that manufactured phenomenon was the creation of Blumhouse Productions...
The romantic comedy is a fickle beast for any filmmaker to master. The genre has a structure that must be maintained, and even though there are theoretically two ways for these worn-out stories to end, one will always win out: Hap...
As expected, ‘Fifty Shades’ topped the box office for a second weekend. However, it did so with a huge week-to-week dropoff. For better or worse, this weekend’s new releases also defied expectations.
While movies from 2014 will be inundated with accolades this weekend, viewers who don’t care about the Academy Awards have a bunch of mostly anti-Oscar new releases to check out.
The biggest joke in ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ was the fact that the movie even existed at all. It was beyond idiotic and that was the charm. ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ doubles down on this dumbness, and at times...
Movies like ‘McFarland, USA’ are tough to review. On the one hand, they’re painfully predictable and offer no surprises for anyone who has seen an inspirational underdog sports drama. On the other hand, that̵...
The title ‘The DUFF’ refers to the “Designated Ugly Fat Friend” required in any high school buddy circle. It’s one of those terms that no one actually says, but used to be the basis of ‘Seinfeld...