This is a painfully unfunny film about an uncouth loser whose road trip with grandma is unintendedly supposed to help her pull her life together. It’s one jumbled misfire after another, wasting a big name cast (Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Allison Janney, Dan Akroyd, Toni Collette, Kathy Bates, Sandra Oh) all of whom, in hindsight, […]
This is one of the saddest excuses for a disaster movie ever made, featuring an insipid script and unlikeable characters that will make you root for the tornadoes, should you decide to waste an hour and a half of your life viewing this disaster of a movie. Documentaries about storm chasers on The Weather Channel […]
This sequel to the sweet film about a bunch of old folks spending their retirement at a hot mess of a hotel in India, is about as original as its title, but the contrived plot is still fun, thanks to the stellar cast – Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, in particular. They, and the nice […]
Knowing that actual war refugees star in this tale about a group of Sudanese children who flee the massacre of their village and seek a new life in the U.S. makes this understated yet heartfelt story even more impactful. Starring Reese Witherspoon as the social worker who helps them assimilate and reunite, this tearjerker will […]
It blows. Forget the hype from the critics – this horror flick, about a young woman who finds herself being followed by a monster that only she can see and is passed from victim to victim via sex, is more annoying than scary. The only thing that saves this snoozer from total failure is an […]
Helen Mirren shines like bullion in this true story of feisty Maria Altman, who took the Austrian government to the U.S. Supreme Court and beyond to reclaim the famed Gustav Klimt painting (described as Austria’s equivalent of the Mona Lisa) of her aunt that the Nazis stole from her family during the Holocaust. A series […]
An entertaining glimpse inside the creation of the legendary director’s biggest hit film, “Psycho.” Anthony Hopkins is perfect as Alfred, but it is the rest of the cast – Scarlett Johansson, Toni Collette, Jessica Biel, and ESPECIALLY Helen Mirran (as his talented but underrecognized wife/writer, Alma) that gives this movie pizazz. Despite a few slow […]
Michelle Pfeiffer stars in this paranormal thriller about a housewife who suspects the ghost of one of her husband’s missing students may be behind some strange occurrences around her home. But is it her over-active imagination or a really a ghost? The story truly is over-the-top, with a climactic roller-coaster that, thanks to some slick […]
It’s an interesting premise – a crew documenting a woman’s slide into Alzheimer’s Disease realizes that maybe she is just possessed instead. But from there the low budget story gets muddled with cliches and an utterly nonsensical and hole laden plot twist that, despite a smattering of good scares, is more annoying than horrifying and […]
Kirsten Dunst stars in this winsome comedy as Torrance, the newly-elected captain of the five time high school national cheerleading champions, the Rancho Carne Toros, who is sent into a panic when she discovers her predecessor at their upscale school stole their winning routines from a predominantly black high school on the poorer side of […]