Weekend Movies: Success Not Guaranteed
This weekend should end any anxiety caused by the unanswered question: “How will a fourth ‘Jurassic Park’ movie compare to the 22-year-old original?”
This weekend should end any anxiety caused by the unanswered question: “How will a fourth ‘Jurassic Park’ movie compare to the 22-year-old original?”
No other television series has spawned more retrospective documentaries than ‘Saturday Night Live’. To be fair, no other show in the history of television has a comparable legacy of launching generations of comedy star...
Reduced down to its logline of a title, ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’ sounds like an almost impossibly twee indie film too syrupy to stomach. Mixing together hipster quirk with cancer tears, the movie should be the ...
It’s amazing how a few decades can change standards in moviegoing. In 1993, simply seeing Steven Spielberg throw credible dinosaurs up on the big screen qualified as an unprecedented success of cinematic spectacle. These day...
Most great documentaries are found as much as crafted. Crystal Moselle’s Sundance award-winning doc ‘The Wolfpack’ certainly features one of those miraculous subjects that documentarians can spend an entire caree...
It’s an interesting time for Westerns. In the big picture, the genre is essentially dead. Yet, on a small scale it’s incredibly vibrant. The only time that Westerns get made these days are essentially as auteur pieces ...
With glowing reviews and great word-of-mouth, it’s no surprise that Melissa McCarthy’s new comedy came in at the top of the box office this weekend. However, much like Warners’ big-screen revival of an HBO series...
This weekend offers a big blend of new movies, two of which go head-to-head for the same R-rated comedy-loving crowd.
‘Berkshire County’ is pure boilerplate home invasion horror. The film by first-time director Audrey Cummings is well crafted and clearly made with affection for the genre. Unfortunately, the script is little more than ...
A truly bizarre little movie in all the best possible ways, ‘Hungry Hearts’ plays best with zero expectations or any preconceived notions. Unfortunately, that’s not really how movie reviews work. If you’re ...
The best thing that can be said about the ‘Entourage’ movie is that fans of the HBO series should love it. Unfortunately, that’s also the worst thing that can be said about the movie, given that the bros who love...
Ever since she stole ‘Bridesmaids’ away from a cast too good for that to be easy, Hollywood has struggled to find a movie worthy of Melissa McCarthy’s sudden stardom. After a bunch of financially successful but n...