Uncaring adults, prophetic dreams of a sexual nature, carelessly unsafe sex that feels like love, blood-splattered runs from truth and plot into the unknown.
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Sitting through Ben and Arthur at a Weird Wednesday screening is its own category of transformative.
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Tony is a fun but forgettable biopic anchored by Dominic Sessa’s portrayal of a young Anthony Bourdain.
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The Dink simply exists halfway between a sports movie and a comedy, never thrilling enough to be the former, never funny enough to be the latter.
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Evil Dead movies are so beloved because they’re fun. Burn seems to forget that.
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Michael sounds like a Michael Jackson fan’s dream while Man In The Mirror sounds like an incredibly lacking, unintentionally funny ode to the King of Pop, and maybe both of those things are true, but Man In The Mirror has something that Michael definitely lacked: the courage to explore its hero, warts and all.
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While this is undeniably a poor movie, it is indeed fun to watch, but not taken as a representation of Juan Piquer Simón’s finest work.
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For an adaptation of an ancient work, it is startling how much Nolan’s recontextualizing of Troy’s destruction speaks to societal failures we are living through over 2,000 years later.
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This is no cloying tale of Americana, all wrapped in nostalgia and summertime haze. Clad in cool undertones, this is an ultra-realistic, dreary portrayal of life in rural small-town America, where mundanity and its discontents take center stage.
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Back to the Future is not about time travel. It is about the universe looking at the McFly family tree, sighing deeply, and sending an Appalachian Time Lord in a DeLorean to make sure the branches do not touch.
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Truth be told there’s a lot to like here, but unfortunately the movie kinda whiffs a lot more.
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I’m not sure about Penny Slot, but I’m pretty sure that Showgirls 2 is a gift from heaven. Doubly so for the woman who created it.
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Obsession offers a more existential terror by pulling no punches and giving no grace to its characters. But a predictable plot and messy construction can’t save the movie from itself.
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The Toy accidentally lets Richard Pryor be Richard Pryor, not the cleaned-up, family-friendly studio product Pryor, but the Pryor who understood that being a black man in America meant performing a version of yourself that kept the room comfortable while the actual work happened somewhere behind your eyes.
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Olivia Wilde’s The Invite angles for a meaningful excavation of a relationship on the rocks, but this marriage drama isn’t covering any new terrain.
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Hayley Kiyoko knows that not everyone watching Girls Like Girls was a teenage lesbian, but we all were teenagers at one point. We all dealt with a world that didn’t understand us in some way. And if we were lucky, at some point during those years we got to fall in love for the first time.
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In the mid-1990s, Japanese filmmaker Kaizo Hayashi took a crack at the Hammer character in a trilogy of offbeat crime capers.
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It’s as if Michael Sarnoski was so put off by the success of A Quiet Place: Day One that he decided to make a movie that is nearly impossible to enjoy.
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In Tuner, the narrative feature debut of co-writer/director Daniel Roher, Roher puts the risk-taking in the hands of the filmmakers in attempting to make the romantic plot the focus of the film, with the criminal storyline taking a backseat.
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Just like Nope gives us a thrilling finale and a printed image that means our heroes “succeeded,” The Drama gives us the messiest wedding possible while leaving us with an image of the happy couple in their wedding clothes ready to start their new life. They’re completely disheveled and all of their other relationships are in shambles, but they are ultimately still together.
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