TIFF Journal: Halloween (2018)
It may be heresy to say, but David Gordon Green’s version of Halloween isn’t just better than the (overpraised) original, it’d work perfectly well if it were a standalone film that toyed with general slasher movi...
It may be heresy to say, but David Gordon Green’s version of Halloween isn’t just better than the (overpraised) original, it’d work perfectly well if it were a standalone film that toyed with general slasher movi...
‘Prometheus’, Ridley Scott’s return to the ‘Alien’ franchise, was supposed to reignite excitement and deepen the series’ mythology. Instead, it was beautiful to look at but stumbled through fail...
‘Masterminds’ is just a little bit too weird for its own good. That’ll be exactly what makes the proud few who fall for this collection of eccentricity to fall deeply and what will drive everyone else away.
When ‘The Angry Birds Movie’ was announced, the world reacted with a resounding “WHY?!!” I was one of them. It made no sense to me. Now that I’ve seen the film, the question remains unanswered.
Bill Murray is such a singularly hilarious and major talent that it can be easy to forget that he’s just as capable of delivering a stinker as anyone else. After all, the man did co-star with an elephant once. He can’t...
A strange thing has happened over the last few years. The romantic comedy, once a lynchpin of Hollywood’s desire to profit off date nights, has slowly disappeared after a few too many Katherine Heigl crap-heaps soured anyone...
Car crashes, explosions, decapitations, exorcisms, the apocalypse and tons of dick jokes make up Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen’s ‘This Is the End’ – and it’s the most fun I’ve had at the movies in ten ...
Did you all take advantage of the slowdown in Blu-ray releases over the past couple of weeks to save up a few dollars? I hope so, because December will have no mercy on your wallets.
The topic for this week’s Roundtable came pretty easily once I realized that irritating and wholly unfunny “comedian” Danny McBride has both a new movie in theaters and one from earlier this year debuting on vide...
It’s always fun to watch niche audience flicks open against each other. This weekend ought to be even more fun because we get four different genres: an R-rated crude comedy, a 3D horror splatterfest, a 3D concert movie, and ...
Director Ruben Fleischer has hit another home run. While ’30 Minutes or Less’ doesn’t quite reach the level of his last film, ‘Zombieland’ (let’s be honest, how many genre-blending comedies will...
Stoners may, as a rule, be a pretty unambitious lot. For some reason, however, they seem to rule the Blu-ray release schedule this week. Party on!