‘Bad Santa’ was a delightful lump of comedy coal delivered in the 2003 holiday season. Somehow, the R-rated X-mas piss-take became a theatrical hit and a perennial holiday favorite on cable channels without content reg...
We’re coming up on the season finale of ‘Westworld’ soon, and the show has decidedly ramped up its efforts to explain (or at least provide insight into) some of its mysteries. In many of its scenes, this weekR...
Arriving just in time for the holidays, ‘Moana’ is a Disney princess tale hidden within a thrilling adventure picture with a spattering of fantastic songs to make it all go down smoothly. If you aren’t charmed by...
There’s a lot going on again in this week’s ‘Supergirl’. Mon-El has been taken captive by Project Cadmus, J’onn continues to deal with the ill effects of his blood transfusion, and our girl Kara meets...
As ‘The Walking Dead’ makes its rounds checking in with one group of characters at a time, this week brings us back to the Hilltop to reassure us that, yes, Maggie has survived. It’s not all bad news during the a...
Weaving stories within stories within pretty pictures, Tom Ford’s ‘Nocturnal Animals’ is an immaculately constructed cinematic contraption that just might be a little empty inside. Like the fashion designer-turne...
The fans turned out this weekend for the latest offering in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world, but that was the only movie to perform as expected. Not only did the other wide releases miss the mark, but the expanding limited re...
This week’s new Blu-ray releases include some real dogs, but come hell or high water we’ll dig through them until we find something interesting to watch. (It won’t be that hard. Honest.)
Between ‘Doctor Strange’ and ‘Fantastic Beasts’, magic appears to be one of the dominant themes of the fall movie season this year. Excluding ‘Harry Potter’ (too easy), what are your favorite mo...
‘The Flash’ wasn’t on last week due to the U.S. Presidential election. I guess there are some disasters even the fastest man alive can’t outrun.
Few internationally revered filmmakers seem to enjoy naughty provocation quite as much as Paul Verhoeven. The Dutch auteur hasn’t worked quite as much since he left Hollywood and returned to Europe, but when he does, fans ca...
‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ is a curious effort for Ang Lee. The director does some genuinely experimental visual work that can be rather brilliant. At the same time, the film’s script often can’...
