Every day, social media provides new and exciting opportunities for humiliation. The services have made communication easier and invented all new forms of public shame. It only makes sense that cringe comedies would thrive in this...
The release of ‘Logan Lucky’ marks a return from self-imposed cinematic retirement for director Steven Soderbergh. You’d think that might mean the Oscar-winning filmmaker has an extra important and ambitious proj...
Between ugly artwork and short-run discs that sell out before you even have a chance to click on a link to preorder them, it’s a frustrating time to be a SteelBook collector these days. Here’s a look at three upcoming ...
‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ is a throwback. Essentially, it’s the 87th remake of ‘Midnight Run’, only this time with assassins, Sam Jackson, Ryan Reynolds, and European settings. It doesn’t t...
The ‘Twin Peaks’ episodes without Dougie are decidedly better than the episodes with him and show the potential of what this new season could, and should, be. It’s a shame there are so few like this.
Sorry, fans, this week’s episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ doesn’t feature any epic, game-changing battle scenes. What it offers instead is a lot of interesting scheming and plotting, and one important revelatio...
Horror is on the rise, while shoddy kids’ movies and shameless Oscar bait are declining. Despite one of the weekend’s new movies having an unexpectedly large opening, the other releases under-performed so much that the...
New Blu-rays this week are inundated with terrifying bloody carnage, soapy teen romance, and drunken clowns. Geez, sounds like my seventh birthday party all over again.
Hollywood often turns to adapting popular books as the basis for new movies. Occasionally this works out, but frequently the resulting films are pale shadows of their source material. For this week’s Roundtable, we look at m...
It’s amazing how many documentaries exist about teenage dance competitions. Most are essentially long advertisements for their schools strung together with inspirational tales of youths dancing over adversity. Amanda Lipitz&...
‘Menashe’ is a film that hopes to present itself as a contemporary version of ‘Marty’ (in Yiddish no less). Fair enough. Beautifully observed works of humanism like ‘Marty’ barely exist anymore ...
Since when did the summer blockbuster season come to a halt in August? Instead of opening big titles atop one another for the past three months, the studios should have saved some of their big stuff for this and the coming slow we...
