Weekend Box Office: Dead Rising
This Valentine’s weekend, romance flicks got placed on the back burner while an edgy super-antihero action/comedy destroyed records as if it were a summer tentpole blockbuster.
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 14th, 2016 – Oscar Nom
As we return from the President’s Day weekend, it’s bio-pic week on Blu-ray. A bunch of last fall’s Oscar bait movies hit video to either remind Academy voters of their existence, or to sulk about getting snubbed...
Weekend Roundtable: Bad Romance
Valentine’s Day is the time to celebrate love in all its magnificent splendor. However, since we’re a bunch of cynics around here, let’s do the opposite of that. This week’s Roundtable is dedicated to movie...
‘How to Be Single’ Review: How to Be Average
‘How to Be Single’ is a movie that can’t quite decide what it wants to be. Is it a story about learning to love being alone or learning that it’s actually important to fall in love? Is it a raunchy comedy o...
Weekend Movies: Dead in the Water
Some of this Valentine’s Day weekend’s new movies are getting much more buzz than they deserve.
‘Zoolander 2’ Review: Acceptable, If Nothing Special
Comedy sequels ain’t easy. Like hearing the same joke twice, it just won’t be quite as funny the second time, no matter how amusing the telling. Only a handful of examples manage to match or top their originals, but those are the ...
‘Touched with Fire’ Review: A Weak Flame
Walking an uncomfortable line between probing and preaching about a valid issue, ‘Touched with Fire’ starts strong and establishes some intriguing characters before losing its way pounding home a thesis.
‘Nina Forever’ Review: Morbidly Funny Love
Love is many things and not always pleasant. Despite what the greeting card industry suggests, even the best of times often come with a certain overwhelming sense of queasy anxiety. That’s the side of love explored in the de...
‘Rams’ Review: Bent Out of Sheep
‘Rams’ is the undoubtedly finest film about Icelandic shepherds ever made, and will quite likely retain that title in perpetuity. Still, quiet, and deeply bizarre in ways that are both tragic and funny, writer/director...
‘The Flash’ 2.13 Recap: “You Know My Favorite T
This week, ‘The Flash’ goes full-on ‘Fringe’ as our heroes take a trip to the parallel universe of Earth-2. Why is it that parallel universes in comics and sci-fi are so obsessed with monorails and the Art ...
‘Deadpool’ Review: Self-Consciously Silly Superhero S
Within seconds, it will be clear whether or not ‘Deadpool’ is for you. The opening credits weave through a frozen moment of action claiming to be produced by “some asshats” and starring “some idiot...
SteelBook Alert: 100 Miles and Runnin’
As mentioned in this week’s Blu-ray Highlights post, Best Buy is currently carrying an exclusive SteelBook edition of the latest James Bond opus. Here are some images of that, plus another recent hit.