‘Fat’ Review: A Shame
There are ways in which Mark Phinney’s ‘Fat’ is an utterly unique drama. For the first hour, the film takes on a character and mental state that haven’t been seen before on-screen and does so from a unique ...
There are ways in which Mark Phinney’s ‘Fat’ is an utterly unique drama. For the first hour, the film takes on a character and mental state that haven’t been seen before on-screen and does so from a unique ...
It’s odd to think that the once derided chopsocky kung-fu genre has grown into a playground for art filmmakers. Like Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou and others before them, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien (‘Millennium Mambo...
‘Suffragette’ is a tricky movie. On the one hand, there’s no denying the importance of its themes (which have oddly not been properly dramatized before), the talent of the actress at the center, or the handsome n...
As part of his ongoing quest to make at least one film in every genre regardless of whether or not he’s suited to the material, director David Gordon Green has now delivered his version of a spin doctor satire in the mold of...
As the laughably unsubtle title suggests, ‘Truth’ is a movie that strives to be something big and important about big and important subjects that we should all gaze upon in jaw-gaping awe. Indeed, the subject matter is...
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘Room’ is the way the filmmaker was able to take material that could have so easily been sensationalistic and transform it into something subtle and human....
When we hear the words “National Lampoon” these days, we tend to think of ‘Animal House’, ‘Vacation’, and then a slew of absolutely horrendous movies with that label above the title. That’...
It goes without saying that a movie starring Vin Diesel as an immortal witch hunter will be stupid, but it shouldn’t be incompetent. And yet, ‘The Last Witch Hunter’ proves that even Diesel can still surprise us ...
Bill Murray is such a singularly hilarious and major talent that it can be easy to forget that he’s just as capable of delivering a stinker as anyone else. After all, the man did co-star with an elephant once. He can’t...
Once the Hollywood nostalgia train gave up on ’80s reboots to move firmly into the 1990s, it was only a matter of time before the studios found their way to R.L. Stine. ‘Goosebumps’ (“The Movie” is sa...
A spiritual sequel to ‘The Social Network’, ‘Steve Jobs’ sees screenwriter Aaron Sorkin deliver another tale of a troubled genius who helped create a world of computer communications yet couldn’t figu...
Somewhere over the last decade, “rom-com” became a dirty term in Hollywood. To be fair, that was mostly the result of tediously cranked-out movies that sullied the genre out of acceptable date night rotations. However,...