In this age where computer-generated animation has largely supplanted older traditional methods, the labor intensive stop-motion process is a dying breed. This week, studio Laika keeps the format breathing with ‘The BoxTroll...
With two promising new movies, the last weekend of September might shape up to be a good one.
‘Pride’ embodies a certain type of populist British comedy that peaked with ‘The Full Monty’. The formula is simple: take a topic that would have been subversive 15 years ago, stage it as a Frank Capra come...
There are many movies bathed in nostalgia that recreate cinematic experiences of the past, yet few do it in a way that somehow feels modern at the same time. That’s the trick that director Adam Wingard has mastered over his ...
The fall TV season only just started, and already the worst new series of 2014 has declared itself. Well, I suppose that’s not fair. I have no intention of watching the atrocious-looking new ‘NCIS’ spin-off to se...
Much of the hype surrounding ‘The Equalizer’ hinges on the fact that it reunites director Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington for the first time since ‘Training Day‘. The trouble is that Fuqua hasn’t ...
‘The BoxTrolls’ is a spectacular children’s animated feature, but it’s not a film for anyone whose idea of family entertainment starts and ends with Disney. It’s dark to the point of being horrific, g...
If it were really possible for a person to live forever, he’d no doubt witness history repeat itself time and again. Likewise, ABC’s new drama ‘Forever’ leaves me with a serious case of déjà vu. Haven’...
If nothing else, ‘The Skeleton Twins’ offers definitive proof that strong performances can save almost any movie, especially a comedy (even of the serio-comic variety). The story and style of the film were indie cliché...
Now that DC has finally unveiled its big new superhero spin-off show, Marvel Comics doesn’t want you to forget that it has a superhero spin-off show on TV too. You remember ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’, don’t y...
Among other things, November will bring us a bunch of sequels, plus one movie that sounds like it must be a sequel but actually isn’t.
Well, here it is, the Season 2 finale to the show many of us love to hate. While I can’t say ‘Under the Dome’ got any smarter during this cliffhanger, I will say that things were never boring. In fact, the episod...
