Weekend Box Office: Fire Extinguished
After two bad Dan Brown movie adaptations, the people have spoken loudly via a terrible turnout for the third. When a week-old ‘Madea’ sequel can trump a new pricy Tom Hanks/Ron Howard film, that says a lot.
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of October 30th, 2016 – Battles Be
The biggest new Blu-ray this week boldly goes where twelve previous movies have already gone before. If that doesn’t do it for you, perhaps you’ll find some enjoyment in watching an Oscar winner completely humiliate hi...
Weekend Roundtable: Movies That Actually Scared You
We were perhaps a little too negative about horror movies in last week’s Roundtable topic. Let’s head into the final weekend before Halloween by calling out some horror flicks that actually did their job and scared us.
‘Moonlight’ Review: Ambitious Yet Intimate
Every now and then, the right movie comes along at the right time. With the Twitterverse bringing identity politics out of academia and into the mainstream, there has been a sudden demand for films that explore issues of racial an...
‘Oasis: Supersonic’ Review: Oasis, We Hardly Knew Ye
Oasis was a classic rock ‘n roll story, almost self-consciously constructed for success and implosion. They took off quickly, peaked early, and could never live up to the legend they half-heartedly created. It was a 2.5 year...
Weekend Movies: Scorched Earth
While the last few weeks were jam-packed with three or four major new movies each, this weekend only offers one. It’s not uncommon for highly-anticipated films to open alone. However, this one is the third in a franchise tha...
‘Inferno’ Movie Review: Hellishly Mundane
When Ron Howard and Tom Hanks adapted the best Dan Brown books, the results were pretty dumb and dull movies that mostly made their fortunes off brand name recognition. Now that they’re getting into weaker entries in Brown&#...
‘Christine’ (2016) Movie Review: A Slow Burn to Sadne
The name Christine Chubbuck may be known mainly to those with the most morbid of curiosities. Chubbuck was a news reporter for a small Florida TV station in the 1970s who became so fed up with her station’s “If it blee...
‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 4.05 Recap: “Ghost Bus
Marvel’s ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ features a prison break this week. And yet Wentworth Miller showed up on a DC Comics’ show instead on the same night. What a missed opportunity.
‘Gotham’ 3.06 Recap: “Welcome to Our Tea Party&
This week, ‘Gotham’ makes a major change to one of its core characters. I don’t think it’s necessarily out of character or even unexpected, but it may nonetheless prove to be controversial.
‘The Handmaiden’ Review: Playful Perversity
One of the most playfully twisted filmmakers of his or frankly any era, Park Chan-wook is a naughty boy who enjoys playing games with his audience. Though he specializes in genre fare, Park’s films are never predictable or t...
‘Westworld’ 1.04 Recap: “One Match, One Pistol,
I decided that I wasn’t going to complain about the timeline confusion on ‘Westworld’ anymore (at least for now). However, the latest episode really confounds me.