Now Playing: Life in Cronenbergia
‘Cosmopolis’ is an interesting departure from David Cronenberg’s recent straightforward feature films. It’s a movie that left me feeling bitter and cold, and I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad...
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Weekend Movies: I See Dead People
With summer drawing to a close, the studios offer up a huge spread of variety this weekend. We get a family flick about a kid who grows from a garden, a stop-motion movie about a kid who sees dead people, a musical drama that will...
Weekend Roundtable: Best & Worst Gender-Swapping Movies
That Tyler Perry sure likes to dress in drag, doesn’t he? With this week’s release of yet another of the writer/director/star’s ‘Madea’ movies, we thought that we’d use today’s Roundtable to loo...
Book Review: ‘Tales from Development Hell’
Have you ever wondered why so many movies just plain stink these days? The simplistic answer, of course, is that Hollywood executives are idiots and/or have no respect for their audience’s intelligence. Both of these may be ...
Blu-ray Highlights for 3/27/12 – The Beginning of a Beautif
Just how many “Ultimate Collector’s Editions” of one movie do we need? We’ll find out this week, as Warner Bros. re-releases one of its most important classics in another fancy Blu-ray box set. Also on tap ...
Weekend Box Office: ‘Twilight’ Still Sparkles
Was there ever any doubt that ‘Breaking Dawn’ would hold onto the #1 spot this weekend? With nothing much opening this coming week, I’m going to predict that the latest ‘Twilight’ sequel will stay on ...
Thanksgiving Weekend Movies: Family Flicks and Oscar Hopefuls
I always cherish Thanksgiving week for ringing in the amazing end-of-year movie season. We not only get an onslaught of awards contenders, but also a slew of family films and blockbusters. And it all starts now.
The Trailer Park: Oh, the Drama!
With the holidays also comes Oscar season, when mature dramas fill the screens to impress the Academy in hopes of winning a golden statuette. Two in particular seem like quite the stunners in almost every area, and their trailers ...
The Netflix Stream: Week of May 4th, 2011
That’s some bad queue, Harry. This week, Netflix gets a few movies that are just plain hard to care about, and loses the single undisputed best movie ever made by man, or any other species for that matter. The ever-changing ...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movies About Winter or Snow
The Roundtable took a break for a couple of weeks over the holidays, but it’s back to kick off 2011. Where I live in Boston, we had a pretty big blizzard just after Christmas. That got me thinking on the subject of movies ab...
The Dubious Ethics of Recycling Old DVD Reviews without Credit
Honestly, I debated whether or not to write this article and post it publicly. I’ve been putting it off for a couple of weeks now because I don’t want it to come across as some petty grudge between competitors. Unfortu...
Leaving the Stream: Week of December 5th, 2010
We’re losing a few genuinely good movies from Netflix this week. There’s also one that’s just so bad it has to be seen.