With the Brexit vote all over the news and July 4th (in which we Yanks celebrate our independence from England) coming up shortly, let’s do something completely unpatriotic and devote this week’s Roundtable to our favo...
The Fourth of July weekend is typically accompanied by at least one major blockbuster, but what Warner Bros. is trying to pass as the Independence Day weekend event picture is hardly that. Opening alongside the expensive CG-heavy ...
‘The BFG’ was apparently a dream project for Steven Spielberg. The director nursed it along since the book was published in 1982, waiting for effects technology to catch up to one of Roald Dahl’s most playful fan...
Ever since the project was first announced, the all-female reboot of ‘Ghostbusters’ was met with great skepticism from fans of the original movie. When the first trailer was revealed earlier this year, it quickly becam...
Even as a big fan of animated films, this week’s new movie trailers for upcoming CG-animated features are largely disappointing. They don’t generate much interest or excitement.
It’s hard to imagine that anyone out there was really begging for a new Tarzan movie. The jungle hero raised by apes lost his cultural cachet long ago, even with a Disney cartoon to help stretch out the legacy. However, bloc...
The best documentaries hinge on the filmmakers having incredible luck. As much as you can pick a subject worthy of shooting, you can’t guarantee that compelling drama will unfold. In ‘Weiner’, co-directors Josh F...
His career in the movies faltering in recent years, Cameron Crowe decided to follow the footsteps of many of his contemporaries by moving over to the welcoming waters of premium cable television. His new Showtime series ‘Roa...
‘Swiss Army Man’ is a deeply strange movie. It’s utterly unique, except for how it plays on the expectations set up by a cavalcade of movies that have come before. Part slapstick ‘Weekend at Bernie’s&...
It’s a bit strange that there have been more cinematic adaptations of books by paranoid spy specialist John le Carré over the past decade than there were from the 1960s to the 1990s combined. On a certain level, the author&#...
Whatever qualms I may have had about the early parts of the season, ‘Game of Thrones’ turned itself around in a big way last week and followed that up by closing the season with one hell of a momentous ending.
Disney’s hugely successful year continued this pre-holiday weekend. With three of the four new movie releases opening far below expectations, the studio found it easy to keep swimming to the top of the box office charts.
