Movies

I went to see a film this past holiday weekend with family, and there was no sound for the first ten minutes or so. Luckily,...

I am not sure anything can prepare you for Vice. It’s unlike any dumpster fire you’ve ever seen. It has a bankable comedy director (trying...

The original Mary Poppins is the cornerstone of Disney’s greatness – it has everything: magic, music, comedy, and a resonant message about the meaning of family,...

I could imagine many religious sects watching Netflix’s The Last Hangover and feeling irrationally angry about its revamped version of events on Jesus’s Last Supper. As someone...

Why are studio comedies so hard to make? Is it too many hands in the cookie jar resulting in multiple points of view that pull...

Welcome to Marwen is based on the true story of Mark Hogencamp (Steve Carrell), a man who was a victim of a hate crime after...

If you’ve heard of Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski, it’ll likely be because the new Netflix Original documentary was produced by Leonardo...

Editor’s Note: This review of Springsteen on Broadway was written by my partner, who is what one might describe as a demented fan of Bruce...

Mary Queen of Scots is one of those historical figures that everyone was always making stuff up about. She’s a whore, she murdered her husband,...

A zombie Christmas musical doesn’t come your way every day, but when it does, you need to savor it. Anna and the Apocalypse is a...

As I admired the tenacity of the people fighting for their citizenship in the Netflix short film Out of Many, One, I became frustrated that...

If Susanne Bier’s apocalyptic Netflix thriller Bird Box continued in the same manner in which it began, it would have been one of the better...

The Possession of Hannah Grace begins how most movies of this type end: With an exorcism. You can picture the scene. The ill-fated title character...

Matthew Modine is in urgent need of codeine in Brian Miller’s Backtrace, a workmanlike genre flick in which he plays an amnesiac bank robber who...

As cash-grabs go, Once Upon a Deadpool is better than most, mainly because it takes one of the most entertaining films of the year (which...

One of the shows I remember most fondly from when I was a kid is Stingray. I went to see Aquaman today expecting a similar...

To give this film a little bit of credit, scarecrows are an underutilized feature in horror films. They’re naturally pretty unsettling, what with their burlap...

Mirai is the new anime written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda; known by some for a number of the Digimon films, and by others as the...