Wrapping up the awards season hoopla, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Razzies both also handed out trophies this weekend. The Spirits did a decent job of offering concession prizes to movies that Oscar would pass over, while...
By the time this post is published, the Oscars should be over. (With that interminable ceremony, there’s a chance maybe not.) Some of this week’s new disc releases were nominated. Did they win anything? I’d guess no, but the nomin...
Now that the ceremony is finally over, it’s evident that the theme of the 2019 Oscars was that nobody knows anything. All the traditional logic behind predicting the awards went out the window this year. The evening ended with a c...
The Oscars are on Sunday, and it’s all too easy to be pessimistic and pick apart the movies or artists we feel didn’t really deserve to be nominated. Instead, let’s look at the choices that Oscar actually got right this year. Whic...
The third film in the series, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is a strong example of not knowing when to call it quits. The movie isn’t a total waste of time or animation, but it never gives these beloved characters ver...
Average joe Sterling Hayden finds trouble galore with a desperate Ruth Roman, who’s holding highly coveted blueprints for intercontinental ballistic missiles in her purse(!) in 5 Steps to Danger. The all-but-forgotten, low-budget ...
The Prize didn’t win any prizes from the Academy, but this slick mix of suspense, glamor, wit, and intrigue just might be more entertaining than this weekend’s Oscar telecast. Who knew winning a Nobel Prize could be so dangerous?...
With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seemingly in disarray, an awards show scheduled for this weekend with no host, and a weird selection of nominees, this may be the toughest Oscar season to predict in ages. Nonet...
Its contract with Marvel may be ending, but Netflix isn’t out of the comic book superhero business by any stretch. The Umbrella Academy is the streaming provider’s new attempt to fill the void left by its departing Marvel shows. T...
There are only so many movie stars to go around, yet someone has to play the snarky next door neighbor or Police Officer #2. Dick Miller may not have become a household name from those sorts of roles, but chances are that whenever...
A middle-aged, sex-starved Joan Crawford falls for hunky, often shirtless Jeff Chandler, but there’s a good chance he’s really a killer who preys on rich, lonely older women in Female on the Beach. (How’s that for a title!) For th...
The Walking Dead spends most of its hour this week introducing us to the new Big Bad villain for the rest of the season. I’m really left questioning whether she ultimately seems as fearsome as intended, or if the show has already ...
