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Maleficient: Mistress of Evil Review – Another Horny Fairy Tale

Deirdre Crimmins — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:00:22 +0000

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil may appear to be the next in the long list of Disney’s live-action remakes, but don’t let that scare you away. This tale of revenge and horns is the rare case of the corporate giant taking a risk, for better and sometimes for worse. The saga of the unending Disney reboots...

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‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Review: Buggy Sequel Fails to Fly

Jason Gorber — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:00:35 +0000

It’s inevitable that some 20 films into the Marvel Cinematic Universe things are starting to feel a bit rote. We know that between the big explosions of the ‘Avengers’ films, standalone works will move the pieces into place for what’s to come, hopefully injecting just enough humor, action and excitement to make the effort worthwhile....

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‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (2017) Review: Murder Most Middlebrow

Philip Brown — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:00:41 +0000

In the grand scheme of movies that needed to exist in 2017, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ ranks somewhere near the bottom of the list. There have been a variety of adaptations of this Agatha Christie whodunnit over the years and Kenneth Branagh’s new version doesn’t add much beyond modern movie spectacle. While it’s a...

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‘mother!’ Review: Nightmarish Metaphors (or Something)

Philip Brown — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 19:00:13 +0000

If nothing else, it’s astounding that Darren Aronofsky was able to get ‘mother!’ produced at a Hollywood studio and spat out into wide release. The film starts off like a queasy paranoid psychological horror thriller, but eventually departs into full-on surrealist nightmare territory. What the filmmaker is getting at (beyond unsettling and freaking out his...

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Weekend Movies: Finally, A Frightening Friday the 13th

Luke Hickman — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:00:52 +0000

This summer was one for the books. Tentpoles flopped while horror thrived. Fittingly, this Friday the 13th offers another horror sequel, as well as a mobster comedy infused with action. Which will you choose? Not only is the horror genre on the rise, but so specifically is director James Wan. His $20 million, R-rated horror...

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Now Playing: ‘Family’ Matters

Bryan Kluger — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:00:13 +0000

Director Luc Besson sure must love Martin Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’. His new film ‘The Family’ is a dark and ultra-violent comedy that plays like a follow-up to that movie, if it showed Henry Hill’s life after he joined the Witness Protection program. After testifying on their crime bosses, a former New York Mafia family relocates every...

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Now Playing: Go Figure, Johnny Depp in Another Quirky Tim Burton Movie

Luke Hickman — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:00:12 +0000

When I first saw the theatrical trailer for ‘Dark Shadows’, I got really excited for Tim Burton’s new film. Even though I knew absolutely nothing about the old soap opera upon which it’s based, that wasn’t a stumbling block that impeded my anticipation for the movie. All I noticed was that Tim Burton finally appeared...

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Now Playing: Nothing New About ‘New Year’s Eve’

Luke Hickman — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:00:50 +0000

Last year, New Line put out the highly successful chick flick ‘Valentine’s Day‘, an ensemble story about more than a dozen people in Los Angeles on the romantic holiday. The result was a formulaic, poor man’s ‘Love Actually‘. Everything had been done before, and the strings that tied all the characters together in the end...

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The Netflix Stream: Week of May 8th, 2011

Dick Ward — Thu, 12 May 2011 15:00:06 +0000

Netflix gives us a fair trade this week. A few good flicks may leave Watch Instantly, but a few more come on board for the first time. Among them is a film that earned James Franco a great deal of praise over the last year. Leaving the Stream ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ (5/16): As someone...

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