According to the IMDb page for last year’s James Franco vehicle Why Him? Bryan Cranston repeatedly utters the line,”Why *him?” I have seen the film twice...
Alien: Covenant seems to mark a bit of a return to form for Ridley Scott who captures the same claustrophobic, foreboding atmosphere as his original 1979...
Deep into Guy Ritchie’s “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword ,” a bad guy who we’ve never met before informs Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) and his mates...
You would think that a biopic that follows the real-life inspiration for Rocky Balboa would make for an intriguing, wildly exhilarating tale, especially when headlined by...
The Lovers opens as Melora Walters’ Lucy sits on the edge of the bed, her feet not quite touching the floor, as she hides her face...
In James Gunn’s sequel to his swashbuckling space Western, the Guardians of the Galaxy do their version of “The Empire Strikes Back,” complete with daddy issues...
The shootout, often a ballet, is a battle royale in Ben Wheatley’s “Free Fire.” When the bullets start flying, Wheatley’s arms-deal-gone-wrong 1970s shoot-up comes to a...
When the first trailer for The Fate of the Furious was released back in December, I thought it looked like the most pointless, ridiculous movie of...
To be completely honest, whenever I attend a film festival, I usually don’t have the highest of expectations when walking into some of the movies being...
The Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo makes funny, fantastical, Frankenstein-like films that playfully combine small-scale with big-concept. His 2011 film “Extraterrestrial” is a romantic comedy centered on...