‘Hardcore Henry’ Review: Much Too Much
You’ve gotta give the folks behind ‘Hardcore Henry’ this much: They certainly didn’t hold anything back. The first action movie shot exclusively in a first-person p.o.v. is a relentless assault on the sense...
You’ve gotta give the folks behind ‘Hardcore Henry’ this much: They certainly didn’t hold anything back. The first action movie shot exclusively in a first-person p.o.v. is a relentless assault on the sense...
Twenty-four years ago, Richard Linklater made the jump from the world of DIY indies to Hollywood with the anthropological high school comedy ‘Dazed and Confused‘. Now he’s back with a companion piece of sorts in ...
There are several ways in which ‘Midnight Special’ feels like a throwback. In movie geekery terms, the film plays as an homage to the mystery, complexity, wonderment and technical mastery that young Steven Spielberg an...
Say what you will about the decade-late sequels to ‘Anchorman’ and ‘Zoolander’, but at least those movies had adoring cult audiences that demanded sequels for so long that their creators eventually gave in....
A peculiar domestic crime thriller laced with political allegory and morbid wit that’s also somehow based on a true story, Pablo Trapero’s ‘The Clan’ is absolutely fascinating and well worth seeking out for...
After three years of studio hype and internet hate, ‘Batman v. Superman’ is finally here. Predictably, the first wave of reviews have been overwhelmingly harsh. However, for the most part, that reaction has been a litt...
The best part of sitting down to enjoy a new feature by Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos (‘Dogtooth‘, ‘Alps’) is knowing that there’s no point in having expectations. Lanthimos doesn’t make movies ...
‘Miracles from Heaven’ marks the latest entry in Sony’s ongoing commitment to Christian-focused filmmaking. In fact, the production wing even has its own awkward title card now: Affirm Films. (Yeah, it means exac...
Remember when Terrence Malick movies were rare, maybe once-a-decade occurrences that felt like special events? Sadly, those days appear to be long gone. ‘Knight of Cups’ is pretty to behold, but it’s just as lost...
The second ‘Divergent’ movie made slightly more money than the first in the global market, so now we have a third chapter. The main knock against the series thus far is that it feels rather redundant to ‘The Hung...
The only real problem with Stephen Frears’ ‘The Program’ is that it can’t help but exist in competition with the brilliant documentary ‘The Armstrong Lie‘, and fictionalized true life stories ju...
The 1990s were filled with ‘Saturday Night Live’ spinoff movies or projects like ‘The Jerky Boys’ that took characters who were funny in small doses and needlessly stretched them out to feature length expan...