I’ll be honest… I never really watched Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood growing up. I’m not sure if it just didn’t happen to be on when I was in front of the television set, or if I simply had other interests… I…
Sometimes it’s best to just avoid advance word on a film. Hereditary has been getting a great deal of festival press and raves, with many suggesting it’s the scariest thing to hit cinema screens in years (of course, all of…
Just last year, the Ocean’s 11 series got a countrified redo from director Steven Soderbergh with Logan Lucky. Less than a year later, we’ve received another variation on the formula called Ocean’s 8. This time out, the story is based…
It’s tough competing with the big studios, who have far more money and production services at their disposal. So it’s wonderful anytime that a small film tries to compete against the majors and comes out on top. Such is the…
Much like the Marvel comic universe, it has gotten to the point where we can now expect a new Star Wars movie every year or so. Coming from the minority perspective of a person who enjoyed but has not been…
Two years ago, the R-rated superhero flick Deadpool stormed the box office and surprised many movie analysts with a comical, adult-themed (and somewhat crass) take on the Marvel formula. However, it’s always difficult to recapture the same kind of magic…
Actress Melissa McCarthy and husband/director Ben Falcone have teamed up a couple of times in the past with the comedies Tammy and The Boss. Personally, neither of them worked for me, but they did well enough at the box office…
Director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody have teamed up twice in the past with the films Juno and Young Adult. Their latest, Tully, is a little more subdued but features many of the same hallmarks of their previous collaborations,…
Many fans of the Marvel Universe are finally getting, well, half of what they’ve been clamoring for since The Avengers opened in 2012. A showdown between the famous superheroes and their biggest foe. With expectations so high, there certainly must…
With the summer movie season fast approaching, it seems as though mega-budgeted action films are about to flood the marketplace. I Feel Pretty is one of the spring’s last smaller flicks; a comedy with an intriguing premise about a woman…