2016 has been a really tough time for sequels. Some of the year’s seemingly surefire franchise hits wound up disappointing at the box office. Two such casualties make their way to Blu-ray this week.
I haven’t watched ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ in years and don’t remember it clearly. Was Renée Zellweger’s fake British accent in that one as awful as it sounds in the trailers for this week’...
While in the midst of delivering another goofball space opera for Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, James Gunn has secretly been crafting a horror comedy that’s truer to his offbeat origins. ‘The Belko Experiment̵...
‘Denial’ is one of those well-meaning movies about an important subject that isn’t particularly good, but tends to get a free pass in awards season thanks to sincerity and presenting a positive social message. Th...
After an award-winning premiere at Cannes, writer/director Julia Ducournau’s debut feature ‘Raw’ apparently made a few audience members faint at the TIFF Midnight Madness screening. (At least, that’s the le...
After such a lousy summer, September continues strong this week thanks to Oliver Stone, which is a surprisingly thing to say considering his last several films. Alongside that come two sequels and a pair of musical documentaries.
Hard though it may be to believe, it’s been a full 15 years since ‘The Blair Witch Project’ ushered Found-Footage horror and internet marketing into mainstream filmmaking. It seemed like the series might have die...
Even though Edward Snowden already got his best possible movie in Laura Poitras’ tense documentary ‘Citizenfour‘, that doesn’t count in Hollywood terms. Unless it’s a bio-pic with a celebrity imperson...
A mixture of searing historical drama and rip-roaring action adventure, ‘The Age of Shadows’ from director Kim Jee-woon (‘A Tale of Two Sisters’, ‘I Saw the Devil’) bursts off the screen with en...
Thomas Vinterberg has never gotten the same level of international success or respect as his Dogme 95 co-founder Lars von Trier, which is a shame. Granted, he’s not a genius on the level of von Trier (who is?) but the filmma...
Crime movies can be tough. There have been so many that sometimes it feels like there are no themes left to explore. Music video director Adam Smith’s feature debut ‘Trespass Against Us’ attempts something new by...
After a week that devoted far too much screen time (i.e. any screen time at all) to morons Travis and Chris, ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ shuffles them back to the sidelines. We also, finally, find out what happened to Madd...
