With ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ and ‘Wild’, Montreal filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée has been on a hot streak of movie-star led character studies that conceal their crowd-pleasing, feel-good nature just long enough to feel like art films for...
You know what the world really doesn’t need? Another underdog boxing story. It’s too bad no one bothered to tell Antoine Fuqua and the rest of the people behind ‘Southpaw’, because they’ve gone ahead and remade ‘Rocky’ for the 167...
‘Nightcrawler’ takes a satirical stab at the sensationalism of contemporary media so sharp that it cuts to the bone. The film embodies the reckless hunger for fresh footage in a frightening sociopath who wouldn’t be out of place i...
With the summer movie season now completely out of the way, it’s time to set our gazes on the horizon. Let’s look ahead to see what’s opening between now and the end of October.
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 Hollywood. It’s a nas...
Denis Villeneuve (director of the Oscar-nominated ‘Incendies‘) has given us one hell of a terrifying and highly suspenseful ride with his first major Hollywood film, ‘Prisoners’. The movie has an amazing cast and an excellent scri...
The next Machete adventure packs more over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek action and a larger cast, but the sequel to the surprising ‘Insidious’ looks largely like a repeat of the first. Meanwhile, French Canadian filmmaker Denis Villen...
Even with four studio titles opening wide this weekend, I’m most anticipating the expansion of Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’. Last weekend’s record-setting limited release has perked my already heightened expectations. The f...
The best part of action movies (aside from the guns, explosions and some really cool, mind-bending CG effects) are the ones with original stories that manage engage audiences with genuine characters. The following trailers for two...
Apparently, it’s Jake Gyllenhaal week on Blu-ray. Today’s disc releases feature both the actor’s new sci-fi thriller and a reissue of his most famous starring role. Good going, Jake!
A trio of biggish movies open this weekend, some of them better than others. If you aren’t jonesing for some mainstream multiplex fare, some oddball art house pics and some smaller films also expand wider. Oh, and there’s a PG-13 ...
‘Source Code’ has a simple, intriguing sci-fi conceit: Through a clandestine, morally nebulous program, the government can plant the consciousness of a willing (or unwilling) solider into the body of someone who has recently died....
