When screenwriters run out of fiction ideas to make movies about, turning toward real events is often a good idea. Setting aside bio-pics of famous people (which we’ve already done a Roundtable about) or documentaries (did t...
‘The Sixth Sense’ star Haley Joel Osment does a guest spot on ‘The X Files’ this week. All grown up now, he’s traded seeing ghosts for seeing monsters.
Much like last weekend, this week’s new movie offerings lack the stuff that makes you want to spend $10 (at the very least) to see anything new on the big screen.
In the wake of the whimsical joy of the irresistibly charming ‘Paddington’ movies, along comes ‘Peter Rabbit’, another classic British children’s yarn due for an update. Unfortunately, the folks behin...
Three years and millions of swooning hearts later, the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ trilogy is finally complete. It’s hard to imagine life without this remarkable tale of love, devotion, and light bondage.
Possibly the most harrowing and powerful part of Feras Fayyad’s documentary ‘Last Men in Aleppo’ is how banal it can seem at times. Don’t get me wrong, the film is far from boring. This intimate documentary...
The Barry-in-prison storyline was largely sidelined on ‘The Flash’ for the past couple of episodes to focus on other meta-human cases. It’s back front-and-center this week, which means you should brace yourself f...
‘Entanglement’ is a tricky movie to write about. Broken down into the spoiler-free synopsis required for internet times, it sounds like whimsical hogwash arriving well over a decade too late to avoid complaints of clic...
The deserved Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee ‘A Fantastic Woman’ is one of those “movies we need right now” that you tend to read about quite a bit this time of year – heavy dramas that deal with p...
Lavish in its visual effects and elaborate soundstage sets, the cyberpunk sci-fi drama ‘Altered Carbon’ has been proudly hyped as Netflix’s most expensive and ambitious production to date. What the story about? Y...
From the beginning, the ‘Cloverfield’ franchise has been as much about J.J. Abrams’ interest in marketing as it is about the movies themselves. This weekend, Abrams’ pulled off his greatest ‘Cloverfie...
‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ finally, mercifully, appears to be ready to close out this silly alternate-future storyline and return the characters back to their original timeline. Before we get there, a major character wil...
