Movies like this are very tricky to rate. The Hitman’s Bodyguard is an over-the-top, completely chaotic buddy picture. In fact it’s a bit of a jumble, although one that is bolstered to some degree by its two engaging leads. There…
It’s hard not to feel a bit of deja vu while watching the new crime-comedy Logan Lucky; it appears that director Steven Soderbergh has seemingly fashioned a remake of his own remake of Ocean’s Eleven (there’s even a joke in…
Annabelle is an evil and decidedly creepy-looking porcelain plaything that first received attention for its brief but memorable turn in The Conjuring. The bit stood out so much that the toy received its own film in 2014. While the press…
The 1967 Detroit riot was one of the largest displays of violent civil unrest in the United States up to that point in history. Motivated largely by racial discrimination and mistreatment, mobs formed in the streets, leading to clashes, confrontations…
It has been a decent month at the movies, with several solid titles being released over the past week. Atomic Blonde isn’t the best of the bunch and suffers from a lack of emotional investment in the character, but it…
A word of warning to anyone with a fear of drowning… Dunkirk may send you right over the edge. In fact, the latest from director Christopher Nolan (The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar) has so much water-based danger that…
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets opens with an absolutely phenomenal montage. It depicts human progress into space over the passing of centuries, eventually leading to the creation of an orbiting space station featured prominently in the film.…
I’ll admit that I can be somewhat dismissive of remakes and reboots from time to time. More often than not, they don’t hold up nearly as well as the films they are attempting to emulate. There are, however, exceptions, like…
This horror picture comes from the director of the haunted doll flick Annabelle and involves another inanimate object of terror… a music box. Imagine a teen-centric update on The Monkey’s Paw that tries to add extra cursed wishes to the…
Now revered for her contributions to the world of folk art, Maud Lewis certainly led a difficult and troubled life, through no fault of her own. The biopic Maudie tells her story in a straightforward and direct fashion, not unlike…