Fasten your seat belts and stow those tray tables, kids, ’cause we are going on a flight to crazy world, where actors are so good they almost breathe believability into utterly implausible plots… almost. This film, starring newfound action hero Liam Neeson as a badass air marshall trying to save a terrorism-targeted transatlantic flight, is […]
This schmaltzy Adam Sandler modern day knockoff of The Brady Bunch is corny and predictable but the endearing performances of he and Drew Barrymore’s “kids” in this film is so charming you will be glad you saw it.
A series of unusual events leads a group of high school students to suspect something isn’t quite right with the faculty at their school. They discover they are being turned into aliens, in this horror/thriller. With a cast that includes Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Josh Hartnett, Salma Hayek, Bebe Neuwirth and Famke Jansen, The Faculty […]
This is a cleverly-written and beautifully-filmed story of an unconventional first love, when a young, aspiring New York writer (Anton Yelchin) enters into a relationship with a glamorous married Frenchwoman between the hours of 5 and 7pm – a relationship that the woman’s husband and children are aware of and fully support. A strong cast […]
To most, Scientology is just a bizarro celebrity-filled cult. This explosive HBO documentary shows it as something exponentially more sinister, under the helm of leader David Miscavige, who, in 1993, successfully bullied the IRS into labeling it a church and granting it tax exempt status (to forego a billion dollar tax bill that would have […]
More like don’t waste an hour and a half of your life on this insipid piece of garbage. Like the TV show Lost, the joke’s on you. There is no plot. Everyone disappears one by one through the course of the film.
Woody Allen’s latest, about an uppity magician trying to expose a psychic, has a certain contrived, forced, phoned-in sort of feel to it, despite entertaining performances by Colin Firth and Emma Stone. Allen has certainly done worse, but he’s also done much better.
The late Paul Walker’s final installment in the wildly popular muscle car series has all the mindlessly entertaining high-octane car chases, over-the-top action sequences and the nonsensical dialogue fans have come to know and love over the years. While not the best of the franchise, it does it proud and handles Paul Walker’s death in […]
If you could live forever, would life become less special, even sad? This is the crux of this romantic tragedy about a woman who, due to a freak set of occurrences, becomes unable to physically age. While it sounds awesome, problems cause her to avoid relationships and instead create a new identity every ten years. […]
An Indian family moves to a picturesque hamlet in the South of France and opens a restaurant featuring their native cuisine, much to the ire of the owner of the town’s famous Michelin starred French restaurant across the street. The predictable palate of culture clashes-turned-friendships and a sugar-sweet ending is softened by stirring performances by […]