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Ben Is Back Review: This Boy’s Strife

Deirdre Crimmins — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:00:55 +0000

Ben Is Back is the latest film to tackle the losing battle this country is waging with the opioid crisis. However, rather than showing the effects of addiction and the long road to recovery, it instead focuses on the criminal element’s involvement over the course of a single day. When we first see Ben (Lucas...

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Now Streaming: Homecoming Season 1

Josh Zyber — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 13:00:39 +0000

When the creator of Mr. Robot adapts a popular serial fiction podcast into a TV series for Amazon Prime streaming, with a couple of Oscar winners in the cast and seemingly free reign to be as weird and experimental as he wants, the result is bound to be a little off-kilter. The real mystery is...

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‘Wonder’ Review: Why Isn’t Eric Stoltz Playing the Dad in This?

Philip Brown — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:00:07 +0000

‘Wonder’ is designed for the express purpose of making you cry, and co-writer/director Peter Chbosky (‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’) is prepared to suck those tears out of your face by any means possible. The movie is an assault on your heartstrings to the extent that viewing the big maudlin exercise in manipulation can...

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‘Smurfs: The Lost Village’ Review: Getting Too Old for This Smurf

Philip Brown — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 12:00:08 +0000

Yes, another ‘Smurfs’ movie. No, it’s not good. I know that must come as a shock. At least this one is entirely animated, so it spares viewers the cringe factor of watching recognizable actors reach career lows while pretending to talk to Smurfs. Sadly, that’s the only improvement in this smurfin’ mess. The Smurfs are...

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Weekend Movies: Sell! Sell! Sell!

Luke Hickman — Fri, 13 May 2016 16:00:13 +0000

If you could invest in the box office power of each weekend’s new movie releases, this weekend would not be worth risking your money over. Jodie Foster steps back into the director’s chair with ‘Money Monster‘. George Clooney stars as a broadcast financial advisor, similar to Jim Cramer. Julia Roberts is his producer. Set in...

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‘Money Monster’ Review: Stupid with a Side of Smart

Philip Brown — Thu, 12 May 2016 19:00:57 +0000

On a certain level, ‘Money Monster’ is a high-concept thriller like Hollywood used to make all the time. You know the type – take an easily marketable premise that can be condensed into a trailer (or even better, a poster), cast a couple movie stars, throw in some one-liners, and you’ve got yourself a money...

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‘Mother’s Day’ Review: Marshalling in the Crap

Philip Brown — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:00:57 +0000

At a certain point, the world needs to come together and ask why Garry Marshall is allowed to continue working. While there was a time when he provided pop culture enemas like ‘Happy Days’ and ‘Pretty Woman’ that distracted millions from the cold inevitability of death, those days have long since passed. Now all the...

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‘Secret in Their Eyes’ Review: These Eyes Are Glazed Over

Philip Brown — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:00:37 +0000

‘Secret in Their Eyes’ is the latest in the seemingly endless stream of remakes of foreign films that fail primarily due to redundancy. Like ‘Oldboy‘ or ‘Let Me In‘ before it, Billy Ray’s new movie is not without its charms. However, it never provides any sense of how or why this version of the story...

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Weekend Roundtable: Humble Beginnings

Josh Zyber — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:00:23 +0000

Everyone has to start somewhere. Before she lit up the box office headlining the ‘Divergent’ series, Shailene Woodley began her career as a child actor who made occasional appearances in TV shows like ‘The O.C.’ and ‘Crossing Jordan’. In this week’s Roundtable, we take a look at the humble beginnings for other actors who would...

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Weekend Roundtable: Worst Rom-Coms

Josh Zyber — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:00:30 +0000

For many movie fans in relationships, Valentine’s Day will probably involve enduring a crappy romantic comedy with your Significant Other. I say “crappy” because, frankly, the vast majority of rom-coms are soul-crushingly awful movies. In today’s Roundtable, we highlight some of the worst of this genre we’ve suffered through. Shannon Nutt This is a tricky...

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‘Flatliners’ Comes Back from the Dead

Bryan Kluger — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:00:47 +0000

Hollywood’s remake train keeps chugging, but the news isn’t all bad. Niels Arden Oplev will direct a reboot of the 1990 thriller ‘Flatliners‘, which originally starred Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt and Billy Baldwin. You might know Oplev’s name as the director of the original 2009 version of ‘The Girl with The...

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Now Playing: The Most Miserable Kids’ Movie of Them All

Luke Hickman — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:00:27 +0000

Look, I know that kids’ movies can’t always be expected to entertain the adults as well as the children, but with quality family entertainment almost consistently being pumped out by Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks, the need to entertain both audiences has never been greater. If all kids’ movies resembled ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks‘, then parents...

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