‘The Glass Castle’ is a nice movie that means well and has ambition. It’s also such a naked attempt at awards-grabbing self-importance that it’s hard to take as seriously as the filmmakers desire. The summe...
After getting deserved attention for his screenplays for the bitter modern Westerns ‘Sicario’ and ‘Hell or High Water’, former ‘Sons of Anarchy’ actor Taylor Sheridan returns with another new sp...
Martin Scorsese’s ‘After Hours’ is arguably the pinnacle of a certain subgenre of “bad night” thrillers that have the ability to create anxious tension like few others. The Safdie brothers’ R...
This weekend’s box office numbers were not only the lowest of the summer, but some of the lowest of the year. Stephen King’s latest may have topped the reigning champ for the #1 spot, but it certainly wasn’t much...
It’s hard to imagine a more unlikely franchise than Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s ‘The Trip’. It began as a lark, an improvisational comedy hinged on a road trip and conversations with...
Although we’re still in a summer month, this weekend’s big movies feel more suitable for January. It has taken years and passed through the hands of countless directors, but a dumbed-down big screen adaptation of Steph...
Another summer, another batch of popular pre-existing fantasy franchises turned into blockbuster hopefuls. It’s so common now that it’s rarely exciting. There was a time when transforming Stephen King’s cultish e...
Kathryn Bigelow’s ongoing collaboration with journalist-turned-screenwriter Mark Boal previously gave us the searing history lessons of ‘The Hurt Locker’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, uncompromising visions...
Most comedians make their leap from ‘Saturday Night Live’ to movies with something safe. If it’s not an outright adaptation of one of their ‘SNL’ characters, then it’s at least a mainstream come...
Eleven years ago, former Vice President Al Gore turned a PowerPoint presentation into an Oscar-winning documentary. That’s not easy and probably shouldn’t have been possible. However, the subject was climate change and...
As well as this weekend’s new kids’ movie played on Friday, it couldn’t keep up its momentum on Saturday or Sunday, allowing ‘Dunkirk’ to easily retain the top spot at the box office. Similarly, thank...
Leading into it, this weekend seemed promising to me. For one, there’s a female-led action flick coming to us from one of the co-directors of ‘John Wick’. Secondly, Sony’s awful-looking kids’ movie wa...
