After the disappointing season premiere , I was hoping that the second episode of ‘True Detective’ this year would engage me in a way the first episode didn’t. The bad news is that a big chunk of Episode 2 is jus...
With the Fourth of July coming up, now’s a good time to watch a movie with lots of BANG BANG BOOM! Even better if all those flying bullets whiz by your head in fancy Dolby Atmos surround sound. The Sean Penn action thriller ...
Did ‘Under the Dome’ really come back for a third season? Did I really waste two hours watching the premiere? How is it possible that this show has gotten even goofier than it already was? Honestly, the start of the ne...
Although two new movies opened nationwide this weekend, neither was ever a serious contender for the top of the box office.
Did you really think the month of June would close out with a huge batch of awesome, must-own Blu-rays? Get outta here…
As the raunchy comedy ‘Ted 2′ opens this weekend, countless underage kids across the nation will inevitably sneak in to see the movie against their parents’ wishes. It’s a rite of passage. What was the firs...
Both of this weekend’s big new movies use simple male names for titles. So, which name do you like more: Max or Ted? To follow this trend, next week’s release of the previously-titled ‘Terminator Genisys’ w...
Pregnancy comedies are almost as common as actual pregnancies. It’s a universal experience that’s filled with stress, absurdity, hormones, and a built-in tearful ending. What’s pleasantly unexpected about ‘...
A good cringe comedy doesn’t know when to quit. There’s a point when laughable embarrassment crosses over into deep discomfort and a point where that can be pushed into the creepy. Toying with that sort of nervous tens...
The simplest way to describe ‘Ted 2’ is something along the lines of, “It is what it is.” If you liked the first ‘Ted‘ (or any of Seth MacFarlane’s crude comedy output), you’ll proba...
‘Max’ is such an astoundingly awful movie that it’s embarrassing it got a wide release. The flick is essentially ‘Lassie’ combined with ‘American Sniper’, and somehow even worse than that ...
If nothing else, David Gordon Green deserves credit for having the most eccentric career of any director of his generation. After kicking down the door with his award-winning art house debut ‘George Washington‘, he som...
