From watching the trailer, several enticing elements about ‘The Drop’ become evident. First, there’s Tom Hardy. Over the last few years, the guy has proven himself as one of the best actors out there. Second, Noo...
Three years ago, Warner Bros. gave us (what felt like) the first live action marine animal family film since ‘Free Willy’. Although its concept was based on a true story – a beached dolphin was found with a nearly seve...
‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’ just might be the breaking point for anyone willing to follow Simon Pegg to any project based on his talent, track record and likeability. This maudlin, tiresome and hopelessly los...
Given his cultural importance in the 20th Century and the tragic illness that he overcame to achieve that success, it was inevitable that one day someone would give Stephen Hawking a weepy bio-pic. Thankfully, the one that finally...
A classic theatrical revenge story mixed with backstage intrigue and possible hauntings, ‘Over Your Dead Body’ has “Japanese horror movie” written all over it. Even better, it marks the long awaited return ...
‘The Guest’ serves a mash-up of horror, thriller and action genre tropes in a way that hasn’t really been seen since the 1980s. The movie would feel completely appropriate to open with the Cannon Group logo. In t...
Is it ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ or is it ‘Live Die Repeat’? I don’t think we quite solved that puzzle when we last argued about it a few weeks ago. If you’re a fan who prefers the original theatrical t...
Kevin Smith continues his unexpected second career as a horror director with ‘Tusk’. The film is less thematically ambitious than ‘Red State‘, but more successful for it. ‘Tusk’ is a twisted sli...
The second small Al Pacino film at this year’s Toronto Film Festival comes from director David Gordon Green, which means that it could either be a thoughtful and gently surreal art house yarn like ‘George Washington...
Dan Gilroy’s ‘Nightcrawler’ is an acidic media satire and a terrifying portrait of a sociopath that is at once a movie of its moment and the type antihero character study that would have felt at home in 1970s Hol...
We’ve been anticipating big new advancements to the Blu-ray format, both in audio and video, for a while. Now they’re both finally official. The first Blu-ray discs with Dolby Atmos surround sound will arrive later thi...
After two weeks of what seemed to be an upswing in quality, ‘The Strain’ mostly spins its wheels this week in what essentially amounts to a placeholder episode while we wait for more important events to happen in the u...
