Geostorm is perfect storm of disaster movie clichés
Normally at this time of year the IFE landscape tends to be dominated by two types of films. That first flush of serious award season conten... Continue Reading
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Thor: Ragnarok is cheeky, camp classic in the making
If Mad Magazine and the 80’s camp classic Flash Gordon had a baby it would probably look and sound a lot like Thor: Ragnarok. Fun, goo... Continue Reading
Battle of the Sexes is a timely overhead smash
Real-life husband and wife Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine, Ruby Sparks) have been co-directing music videos, docume... Continue Reading
Three Billboards is powerhouse drama writ large
This year’s Academy Award nominations are still a couple of weeks away but after taking home awards for Best Picture – Drama, Be... Continue Reading
Rousing WWII drama Dunkirk soars with the Spitfires
Film fans looking to catch up on some of this year’s Golden Globe nominated films before the big show on Sunday should look no further... Continue Reading
Hillbilly hilarity rules the race track in Logan Lucky
When it comes to heist movies, it’s hard to top writer-director Steven Soderbergh. For while he’ll probably always be known as t... Continue Reading
It isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn may have been the most popular girls’ costumes this past Halloween, but Pennywise the clown from It was ... Continue Reading
Minivan momma takes the wheel in Kidnap
Although she has appeared in more than 50 movies and TV shows over the past 28 years, and is still, sadly, the only African American woman t... Continue Reading
Kooky, candy-colored sci-fi rules the day in Valerian
When it comes to crafting daring, truly strange sci-fi/action hybrids on an epic scale, nobody does it better than César-award-winning multi... Continue Reading
Cheesy fun The Mummy reboot is well worth unwrapping
Universal Studios has been milking their big-three classic monster franchise – Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy – since the 1... Continue Reading
Stereotype-smashing Wonder Woman gets woke
Comic book fanboys who steered clear of Wonder Woman in theaters fearing that it might be too delicate and girly for their manly sensibiliti... Continue Reading
Pop Aye is best man-and-his-elephant road movie ever
If someone told me that one of my favorite movies of 2017 would end up being a quirky, bittersweet road movie about a disillusioned architec... Continue Reading
Table 19 is stellar seating chart in search of a story
The sunny optimist in me likes to think that, like pizza and sex, there really is no such thing as a truly bad wedding. But the realist in m... Continue Reading
Berlin Syndrome is few bricks short of a perfect wall
Ever read a book that starts off beautifully, totally reels you in with a juicy, page-turning set-up, compelling characters with mood and me... Continue Reading
One-on-one with Planetarium director Rebecca Zlotowski
Fascinated by literature and film from a young age, award-winning French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski initially planned on channeling her lov... Continue Reading
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