Weekend Movies: A Whole Lotta Fluff
The gods of Mount Olympus would be sorely disappointed with this weekend’s new movies.
The gods of Mount Olympus would be sorely disappointed with this weekend’s new movies.
As Dwayne Johnson continues his ascent to superstardom, the challenge becomes figuring out just what to do with the guy on the big screen. Obviously he can’t play some nameless office drone. He has to play a larger-than-life...
Luc Besson’s ‘Lucy’ is an absolutely insane attempt to fuse comic book action with grandiose philosophical ideas. The writer/director has failed in his ambitions to be profound, but failed in such ludicrous ways ...
At their best, John le Carré adaptations strip the espionage genre of any and all glamour. They present the spy game as a series of meetings and stakeouts by depressed alcoholics who hate their lives, yet end up doing vastly impor...
‘I Origins’ is a film made by very sincere people that wants to be taken very seriously. It even has a handful of decent ideas and scenes to justify that sincerity. Unfortunately, the movie ultimately peddles half-bake...
None of this weekend’s new movies could defeat Caesar and his dawning planet of apes.
When one of the biggest movies of the weekend is set in a post-revolution future, it’s my wish that we could band together and revolt against all three of this weekend’s big studio flicks.
Ten years and one controversial Kickstarter campaign later, Zach Braff’s mildy anticipated directorial follow-up to ‘Garden State‘ has arrived. His new film highlights all of the strengths and weaknesses of that ...
A sex tape sex comedy sounds damn near impossible to screw up, especially with a pair of comedic actors as game as Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel at the center. Unfortunately, something went drastically wrong at some point during pr...
When ‘The Purge‘ proved to be an unexpected hit last summer, a sequel was pretty much inevitable. However, the fact that the sequel made it to screens in roughly twelve months should have been a sign that something was...
‘Boyhood’ has received a lot of free marketing and curiosity regarding its central stunt of filming a single actor over the course of twelve years. However, Richard Linklater’s latest film is far from a parlor tr...
Released barely a year after the first ‘Planes’ and boasting a running time that barely qualifies as feature length, ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ was clearly conceived as a direct-to-DVD cash-grab, but coul...