Weekend Movies: Perfect Is the Enemy of Good
Three new movies hit wide release screen today, but you’ve probably only heard about one of them.
Three new movies hit wide release screen today, but you’ve probably only heard about one of them.
From the start of his career as a writer/director, M. Night Shyamalan has been known to throw unforeseeable twists into his movies. After his first three or four films, the quality of his work went down the drain. The twists were ...
The always-soft Labor Day holiday weekend offered a few surprises at the box office this year, none bigger than the movie that hit the top of the charts.
Welcome to September. While this year’s ninth month is the most promising one in some time, the first weekend certainly doesn’t have much to offer.
The latest entry in China’s ongoing commitment to propaganda on a blockbuster scale, ‘Dragon Blade’ is a horrible movie. Despite all the money that was clearly funneled into the production (which is already a hit...
‘A Walk in the Woods’ offers pretty much the experience that you’d expect from the title. It’s a movie about two old white men going for a long walk. It’s a comedy, in that there are some jokes even t...
Given that so much of the success of ‘The Transporter’ series lived and died on Jason Statham’s unmistakably Stathamesque performance, you’d think that it would be impossible for the franchise to continue w...
This was a weekend for the record books – but not in a good way. While an obscure faith-based drama definitely rocked the boat, the box office hit a new low for 2015, and the new Zac Efron movie saw the worst debut of all time for...
Here we go again – another August weekend of full of drivel.
Considering how badly it bombed at the box office, it’s remarkable how strong a legacy Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Grindhouse‘ left behind. Made by a handful of east coast Canucks with a VHS c...
Few films about teenagers (especially teen girls) capture that fragile era of life with the necessary level of awkward pain, discomfort and confusion. Teen stories are typically all about raunchy ruckus or inspirational coming-of-...
Some post-apocalyptic tales are big and action-packed like this summer’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. Others are small and quiet like this week’s ‘Z for Zachariah’. One thing that all movies in this ge...