Movies

Liam Neeson didn't invent the "retired professional soldier / operative pulled into one last fight" character or scenario. The damsel in distress wasn't reinvented or...

The tagline for the documentary The Return is a bit clumsy. The desire to make a trite statement fresh is understandable, but misguided, and its appearance on this...

Alex Garland's Ex Machina has a good cast, a very good writer (though unproven as a director), an intriguing new trailer and an interesting premise going...

Even without having read the Jack Reacher novels, I know that Tom Cruise is much smaller than the character is in real life, because...

Ben Affleck stars as a "vaguely on the cinematic autism spectrum" math super genius and secret criminal mastermind in The Accountant. Affleck was, once upon...

Low on loud, predictable jump scares, high on creativity, tension and dread, dark humor, The Maiden is a short horror film that tells the story of...

The first trailer for the first cinematic Star Wars side-story, Rogue One, arrived early today, introducing us to the rebellious, "aggressive and undisciplined" heroine Jyn...

Similar to how Chinese food in China is just "food," in France The French Connection is just The Connection. (and a ménage à trois is just "brunch with...

Suicide Squad director, David Ayer tweeted a photo from the first table read showing the final cast all in the same room. Noticeably absent, was...

I once read a random, surely well-considered criticism of Mad Men in a website's comments section that described it as "a boring show that's just good looking people...

The latest promotional effort for X-Men: Apocalypse is a faux-commercial for a television documentary emulating the style of the old In Search of... series that focused on mysterious...

If you've never heard of Lauren Ashley Carter--"the Audrey Hepburn of indie horror" per the Austin Chronicle--you should know that she has a definitive...

Some artists and creators become legends by producing legendary material, while some become legends by courting controversy and conversation with the works they produce,...

20 Years of Summer is a series covering summer blockbusters year by year, from 1996--the year that Independence Day turned special effects spectacle into...