‘Paper Towns’ is far from a great film, but it does have one thing going for it. The story initially appears to be a dreadfully overused coming-of-age cliché, but then transforms into a slightly less irritating coming-...
Oh, Adam Sandler. How a generation used to love ye. There was a time when the Sand-man walked a tightrope between mainstream crowd-pleasing and anarchistic surrealism better than anyone. That time was the mid-1990s. Now he just mi...
It ain’t easy being a Woody Allen fan these days. Aside from being required to ignore any and all news stories about his personal life, you also have to recognize that in order for Allen to maintain his one-movie-a-year sche...
Joshua Oppenheimer’s ‘The Look of Silence’ is an open continuation of his stunning documentary ‘The Act of Killing‘. Once again dipping into the disgusting horrors of the Indonesian genocide, this tim...
I was so disappointed in the previous episode of ‘Hannibal’ that I put off watching the latest entry for a few days. (It turns out that NBC moved the show to Saturdays anyway.) Man, do I regret that. This is easily the...
I must say, I’m a little jealous. I wish I could get a free copy of ‘Ex Machina’ on Blu-ray. Instead, I’m tasked with giving it away to one of our readers. Let’s see who scored the prize!
You know what the world really doesn’t need? Another underdog boxing story. It’s too bad no one bothered to tell Antoine Fuqua and the rest of the people behind ‘Southpaw’, because they’ve gone ahead ...
The first sign of danger in ‘American Heist’ is the title, which is so generic it feels as though it was spit out of a computer program designed to predict future VOD failures. As soon as the movie starts, it’s c...
If nothing else, ‘What We Did on Our Holiday’ is a strange little movie that never quite plays out like you’d expect. Loosely adapted from a popular British sitcom about parents struggling to keep up with their k...
Because I’m pretty ambivalent about ‘The Strain’ at all, I have to say that I find it really annoying that FX is super-sizing episodes this season to 75 or 90 minutes – especially when most of that difference is ...
This week on ‘The Last Ship’, no one can agree on what “the mission” should be. The Bruvs head down to Miami for a little bit of that sun, sand, and recruiting more Immunes, killing non-Immunes and deciding...
Ken Loach has been a quietly important filmmaker for decades now. From his groundbreaking early realist dramas like ‘Kes‘ to late career triumphs like ‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’, he’s been a pi...
