“Mawage… Mawage is wot bwings us togethaw tooday.” Well, technically, the release of Kevin Hart’s new comedy ‘The Wedding Ringer’ brings us together today, because I was in need of a theme for this we...
On this highly congested mid-January weekend, the widest release is actually an expansion. Warner Bros. is pushing its record-setting four-screen success ‘American Sniper’ up to more than 3,200 screens. Can any of the ...
January is both the best of times and the worst of times for moviegoers. With the awards season in full swing, all those great little movies and tacky awards-bait epics slowly roll out to more cinemas in the hopes of making a litt...
The only reason that ‘Escobar: Paradise Lost’ was made and the only reason to ever consider watching it is the fact that someone had the ingenious idea of casting Benicio Del Toro as the notorious Colombian cocaine kin...
The Belgian Dardenne brothers have at this point refined their style of filmmaking down to something instantly distinct and recognizable. Always playing small and always shooting with handheld cameras, their films almost surpass w...
Back in the 1980s and ’90s, Michael Mann was one of the more interesting filmmakers kicking around Hollywood. His visual style was electric, transforming pulpy subject matter into art through visual sensation. Then he starte...
There are so many reasons why ‘Paddington’ shouldn’t work as a movie. Chief among them, of course, is the fact that this is a contemporary CGI-fueled update of a quaint old children’s book series. We’...
The race is officially on! In a presentation broadcast this morning, actor Chris Pine, directors J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the 2015 Osca...
Hey, did you like all that fightin’ and shootin’ and car chases and explosions and spy intrigue in last week’s premiere of Marvel’s new ‘Agent Carter’ series? Well, I hope those episodes were en...
‘American Sniper’ isn’t a terrible movie, just a tremendously obvious one. It’s based on a true story, so the awards bait stink hangs in the air of every scene. That true story is about Navy SEAL Chris Kyle...
The latest board game from designer Antoine Bauza (of ‘7 Wonders’, ‘Ghost Stories’ and ‘Tokaido’ fame) is now available in hobby stores. Keep reading to see why this little cooperative gem based...
The buzz at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show was all about 4k, 4k and more 4k. Almost every electronics brand had 4k Ultra HD televisions on the showroom floor. Yet, much like the big push for 3D a few years back, this ...
