Of its two live-action remakes of old animated (or partially-animated) movies this year, Disney had a lot more success at the box office with one than the other. Regardless, both will get handsome SteelBook editions on Blu-ray. As...
Ten years after emerging from the shadows and bringing top hats back into style, Hurrican’s classic board game ‘Mr. Jack’ has returned to the tabletop with an all-new look. Come now, Watson… the game is afo...
Although often lumped together with historical period pieces, the epic film as a genre is more commonly defined by featuring a central hero on a grand, ambitious journey. The stories are told in a large, sweeping scale full of spe...
I know I’m in the minority at this point, but I’ve become disappointed with the otherwise well-acted ‘The Night Of’ as it continues to throw (what I believe to be) red herrings at the audience, all while ch...
It’s amazing how the silliest things manage to catch on and take the world by storm. Nintendo’s mobile gaming sensation ‘Pokémon Go’ inspires such a level of obsession that it’s already been linked to...
The official end of summer doesn’t come until September 21st, but by Hollywood standards, the summer movie season for all intents and purposes ended this past weekend with the release of ‘Pete’s Dragon’, ye...
Although last week’s big winner managed to retain the top spot at the box office this weekend, it took a massive hit, just as its franchise partner did earlier this year. Sony’s new R-rated animated comedy nearly doubl...
This is a good week to be a fan of cult movies from the 1980s. It’s also a good week to be a fan of terrible animated movies based on videogames, but I assume that fewer of you will want to admit that.
Before each Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee meets to decide which sports will (or will not) be included in the upcoming program. New events for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Games, for example, include golf and rugby....
It’s here, folks, the end of the summer blockbuster season. (Sure, we still have the needless ‘Ben-Hur’ remake opening next week, but we’re better off pretending that thing doesn’t exist.) Summer may ...
‘Gleason’ is a documentary that could only exist today, the product of a culture filled with seemingly everyone documenting every moment of their lives. The film very much started as that type of personal exercise, bef...
First things first, ‘Anthropoid’ is a terrible title that is difficult to pronounce and will be meaningless to anyone other than a select sect of WWII history buffs. That’s a shame, because the movie that bears t...
