At first, this looks to be an annoyingly pedestrian movie about a teenage girl forced to relive a day repeatedly, a la Groundhog Day, until she makes better life choices to save the life of a bullied classmate. But Zoey Deutch (daughter of Back to The Future’s Lea Thompson) delivers a standout performance, peeling back […]
This gimmicky tale, about a cranky old woman trying to leave a legacy in her final days, works only for one reason: Shirley MacLaine. When her control freak character hires the local newspaper obit writer (Amanda Seyfried) to help her rewrite her legacy, an unusual and inspirational friendship develops. Yes, the film is loaded with […]
This Netflix original film, based on the Michael Hastings fact-based novel about the U.S. military’s post 9/11 action in Afghanistan, stars Brad Pitt as General Stanley McChrystal, the leader forced to resign in 2010 following a controversial Rolling Stone article in which he sharply criticized Vice President Joe Biden and other high ranking officials. The […]
An American doctor taking a brief sabbatical while working in Laos becomes a fugitive after being caught up in a murder and rape in this low budget nail biter of a thriller. While it doesn’t break any new ground in the fugitive thriller genre, this film does have several things going for it: a convincing […]
This 1990 documentary about the black and Latino drag balls of the late 1980s New York should be required viewing for any fan of RuPaul’s Drag Race, to see the origins of such concepts as chantay, shade, vogueing, throwing shade and realness. The interviews with drag queens, nearly all of whom have long since died, […]
In our current, supersaturated era of action-packed but quickly-forgotten comic book movies, it is refreshing to encounter one that effectively captures both the epic scale and wide-eyed earnestness of the D.C. Comics franchise not seen since Christopher Reeve’s iconic portrait of Superman in 1978. In what is certain to be a star-making role, Gal Gadot […]
Marvel Comics’ rag-tag crew of misfit superheroes, led by Chris Pratt, is back, this time to solve the mysterious identity of our star’s father. Visual effects, makeup and music are all off the charts – unfortunately the sequel lacks the cute, quirky charm of the original, instead opting for a string of frenetic, trippy music […]
Zac Efron and Robert Deniro team up as an unlikely uptight grandson/potty-mouthed grandpa duo in this predictable, super raunchy buddy pic about the importance of pursuing your true happiness. While most of the tasteless jokes fall flat, it does have a few really funny moments, several scenes of Efron’s bare ass, a funny finale with […]
If you like your zombie apocalypse with a heavy dose of realism, then this is the movie for you. Ann is living a regimented solo existence in the remote woods of upstate New York following a mysterious population-gutting viral epidemic. But after rescuing a teenage girl and her stepfather, Ann finds herself fending off more […]
Grab the popcorn and get ready for the toothy, acid-bleeding xenomorphs! Ridley Scott’s latest prequel to his wildly-popular Alien sci-fi horror franchise harnesses spectacular visuals and gut-popping scares to eventually reveal the mystery of what happened to the survivors of the Prometheus. The fun begins when the colony ship Covenant is lured off-course by a […]