‘MacGyver’ (2016) Pilot Recap: “If This Guy Is
The new 2016 ‘MacGyver’ attempts something I don’t recall seeing before. It tries to consolidate and reboot two shows in one. It really ought to be called ‘MacGyver: Impossible’.
‘The Exorcist’ Pilot Recap: “It’s Okay to
As far as new Fox TV shows spun off from dormant movie franchises go, ‘The Exorcist’ has a lot more going for it than the very dopey ‘Lethal Weapon‘. So why is the network dumping it right from the start in...
‘Storks’ Review: Missed Delivery
Boy, there sure are a lot of talking animal cartoon movies these days, huh? Barely a month passes between these things anymore, and unless Pixar or Illumination is involved, they tend to run the gamut from mediocre to miserable wi...
Weekend Box Office: Less Than Magnificent
With a star-studded fall tentpole and a new animated family film, this was expected to be a big weekend at the box office. However, with each of the new movies underperforming by about $10 million, it ultimately turned out to be p...
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 25th, 2016 – You Will
This is another big week for bombs on Blu-ray. September closes with one of the year’s worst summer tentpole flops, John Cusack’s latest DTV disaster, and an arthouse dud. Some comedy, horror and cult movies might brig...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Westerns
The Western genre may have, by and large, fallen out of favor with moviegoing audiences quite some time ago, but filmmakers keep trying to bring it back. With a new remake of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ in theaters this we...
TIFF Journal: ‘LBJ’
Some years, two movies about the same subject inexplicably compete for viewers’ attention. You know, like ‘Volcano’ vs. ‘Dante’s Peak’ or ‘Armageddon’ vs. ‘Deep Impact’. ...
TIFF Journal: ‘Salt and Fire’
Werner Herzog is a brilliant filmmaker when his unique imagination matches up with the right material. Given that the guy tends to make movies even faster and in greater numbers than Woody Allen, that means that his talents syncin...
TIFF Journal: ‘The Bad Batch’
Ana Lily Amirpour had a striking directorial debut with the black-and-white Iranian vampire Western ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night‘. Clearly a filmmaker of great talent and imagination, she’s returned this yea...
Weekend Movies: By the Numbers
A couple times already, I’ve praised this September for bringing at least one potentially good movie each week. Unfortunately, the streak ends this weekend with a big budget Western that can’t even satisfy on deliverin...
‘The Dressmaker’ Review: Spaghetti Strapped Western
‘The Dressmaker’ is all over the place as a movie and that’s what makes it both so entertaining and so off-putting. Returning to the director’s chair for the first time since the 1990s, Jocelyn Moorhouse (&...
‘Lethal Weapon’ Pilot Recap: “That’s Not
Over the last three decades, the quintessential ’80s cop/buddy action classic ‘Lethal Weapon’ has gotten three official sequels along with innumerable knockoffs and parodies. Now, 30 years later, it also gets a s...