Shazam! When abandoned teenager Billy Batson (Asher Angel) finds himself selected by the dying Wizard Shazam (Djimon Hounsou) to become his new champion, he eventually is forced to face up to the responsibilities of his new superpowers and save his foster siblings from his enemy, Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong). Aided by a cute script […]
Hanna is Amazon’s TV series remake of the over-the-top 2011 thriller about an extraordinary young teenage girl raised in the forest as a highly-trained assassin searching to discover her true identity while evading a rogue CIA agent. While the Jason Bourne-esque action series lacks the Saoirse Ronan/Cate Blanchett star power of the more entertaining original […]
Sometimes dead is better. And with that tagline, off we go into the latest adaptation of the popular Stephen King horror novel about a family that discovers a creepy Indian burial ground near their new home in rural Maine – a burial ground that re-animates the dead into a more sinister version of what they […]
Colin Farell and Eva Green star in director Tim Burton’s first live-action remake of a Disney animated film – the iconic story of Dumbo, the flying baby elephant with giant ears who uses his fame to reunite with his mother. Unlike the 1941 original, which featured talking animals, Burton’s reboot is told from the human […]
In November 2008, 10 machine gun-toting terrorists attacked several hotels and other locations in Mumbai, India, killing 165 and wounding 308 in a grueling, four-day siege. This film focuses on what happened at the city’s famed Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. There is always the risk that films such as these will be exploitive and offensive […]
Matthew McConaughey stars in this comedy as Moondog, a poet and pothead who lives off of his wealthy wife (Isla Fisher), spending his time stoned, swilling beer and having sex with every woman he can get his hands on from Key West to Miami. When a life changing event occurs, the hedonistic party monster is […]
Franky and Ballas, two longtime best friends and popular high school swim teammates, find their worlds plunged into chaos after an unexpected incident occurs the night of Franky’s 17th birthday. Writer/director Keith Behrman does something in this teenage coming of age indy film that few other directors have achieved – he has created a realistic, […]
In the wake of his wildly popular, 2018 thriller Get Out, writer/director Jordan Peele’s sophomore effort is a horror/thriller about a family of four headed to their beach house for a vacation. It just so happens that the nearby beach is also where the mother (Lupita Nyong’o) was mysteriously traumatized as a young girl. Later […]
An American newcomer (Dakota Johnson) quickly rises to success at a German dance academy in 1977 Berlin as she and other students gradually learn it is a front for something sinister, in this film loosely adapted by director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name), from the 1977 original. The first half of this extremely […]
Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) and Will (Cole Sprouse) are both hospitalized with cystic fibrosis, and must remain at least six feet from one another to avoid cross-contamination of one another’s potentially deadly bacteria. So of course they fall in love and skirt that rule in this young adult tearjerker debut from actor-turned-director Justin Baldoni (Jane […]