‘Permanent’ Review: Bad Hair Day
It’s amazing how the smallest semblance of difference is enough to make someone an outcast, especially in high school. The sophomore feature from writer/director Colette Burson (HBO’s ‘Hung’) is a quirky cr...
It’s amazing how the smallest semblance of difference is enough to make someone an outcast, especially in high school. The sophomore feature from writer/director Colette Burson (HBO’s ‘Hung’) is a quirky cr...
Look out, here comes a Steven Spielberg movie starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks about the value of journalism challenging government and the struggle women face in a man’s world. It’s also a period piece and based on...
The first weekend of the new year offers just one movie in wide release, creating the perfect opportunity to catch up on some of the Oscar bait that you might have missed over the busy holiday season. Since there’s so little...
After writing a few good screenplays that were tamed by a few good directors (‘The Social Network’, ‘Steve Jobs’, ‘A Few Good Men’, etc.) Aaron Sorkin has finally gone ahead and directed a movie...
On the last weekend of 2017, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ was finally dethroned of its title as the highest-grossing domestic release of the year. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ rang in the New Year in its stead. Own...
It’s a jungle out there. With five new movies in wide release, two limited openings and a nationwide expansion, this holiday weekend was certainly congested – and that doesn’t even take into account movies that took th...
After the willfully obtuse ‘The Master’ and the deliberately convoluted ‘Inherent Vice’, writer/director/genius Paul Thomas Anderson has returned with a surprisingly straightforward cinematic effort in R...
‘All the Money in the World’ is a perfectly decent Hollywood thriller. It’s a little heavy-handed and often sinks under the weight of its ambition, but in the pantheon of half-thought-out late Ridley Scott pictur...
Now that ‘Star Wars’ is behind us, every studio in Hollywood has a new movie just in time for the holidays (and awards eligibility). Let’s waste no time getting through them.
Define irony. How about a movie about the value of putting on a great show that is a mediocre show at best? Well, that’s ‘The Greatest Showman’ for you. The film is a massively expensive musical ode to old-fashio...
Every winter, we’re treated to a parade of bio-pics about famous faces who made a mark on American culture. You know, your Abraham Lincolns and so forth. Tonya Harding wasn’t exactly an obvious choice to be added to th...
Take me back to the beginning of 2017 and ask me which campy and unnecessary Dwayne Johnson movie would be better, ‘Jumanji 2’ or ‘Baywatch’. After hanging my head in shame, I would have grudgingly guessed ...