Why studios slate multiple wide release movies on jam-packed weekends is beyond me. Sardined into theaters this week are five – you read that correctly – five movies opening on 1,300 screens or more. These include a brain-dead dis...
There’s a fine line between a contemporary movie harkening back to old-fashioned entertainment and feeling dated. ‘Only the Brave’ walks that tightrope and slips over to the latter side more often than not.
‘The Snowman’ is filled with promise that it never delivers. Based on the obscenely popular novels by Joe Nesbø, directed by Tomas Alfredson (‘Let the Right One In’), and starring Michael Fassbender, the fi...
‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ is the type of film that thoughtful consumers of nasty entertainment treasure. It’s a genre movie that never shies away from its most exploitative elements, instead embracing them in ways...
Now back in Central City after his extended absence, Barry is eager to resume his duties as ‘The Flash’. That means it’s time to deal with a new metahuman-of-the-week. Too bad he can’t also do anything abou...
All horror franchises that last long enough tend to deliver diminishing returns to the point of pure garbage. ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ has had a particularly painful road. Aside from the original masterpiece, goof...
I’ve complained a fair amount about Pop Art Blu-ray cases in this blog, but the truth of the matter is that some of it is better than others. Or, perhaps a more accurate way to put it is that there are degrees to which some ...
I’m as surprised as anyone that I watched the entire third season of ‘Fear the Walking Dead’. I was ready to give up on the series after last season, but I stuck around for curiosity’s sake. Little by littl...
The desire among studios to create elaborate and gimmicky collector’s edition packaging for movies on disc sometimes hits the point of absurdity – especially when, as I experienced recently with the ‘Close Encounters o...
Although ‘It’ is still in the Top 5, after six weeks, the film’s performance is starting to wind down. Horror lovers who already showed up for that movie got behind this weekend’s PG-13 scare flick, easily ...
Are any exciting new Blu-rays headed our way this week? My spidey sense is tingling…
This weekend brings us a bio-pic about Thurgood Marshall, one of the greatest legal minds in American history. Unfortunately, we’ve already done a Roundable about Favorite Lawyer Movies. I guess that means it’s time to...
