Meryl Streep has finally met her match. Yes, the brilliant actress with the nearly embarrassing overabundance of acting and singing talent is not super-human after all. Contrary to popular belief, Mer...

2012’s criminally underrated Jack Reacher featured the debut of the Christopher McQuarrie/Tom Cruise filmmaking team. Though that film was more of a laid back and gritty homage to the classic car-chas...

Were it not for the devastatingly effective one-two punch of Jake Gyllenhaal and Forest Whitaker in Antoine Fuqua’s boxing movie Southpaw , the film might succumb to the legitimate criticism of its fo...

Not yet on the Amy Schumer bandwagon? If the comedienne’s steady rise to cultural notoriety on such shows as Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer and her numerous turns at the mic on awards programs an...

There’s a prophetic line in Amy Winehouse’s grammy award-winning song, Rehab that is as telling about her own doomed fate as it is damning to the men in her life. She wrote the song at a critical junc...

Apparently Steven Soderbergh and filmmakers were so caught off guard (as were we) by the surprising success of 2012’s Magic Mike , that they failed to incorporate a natural segue that leads into a sec...

On the heels of the widespread attention received by Marine sniper Chris Kyle in 2014’s American Sniper, America’s military working dogs (MWD) get their turn at glory with a movie called Max , a famil...

In a title card opening of Dope , the new film by writer-director Rick Famuyiwa, we’re given three widely accepted definitions of the word dope: a drug; an idiot; and the slang word for excellent. In...

Fittingly, the Hawaiian word “Aloha” – which is the title for writer/director Cameron Crowe’s latest film – has become synonymous with the English greeting for both “hello” and “good bye.” As in “hell...

In an early scene of Andrew Niccol’s blistering critique of drone warfare titled Good Kill , Ethan Hawke’s character, Maj. Tom Egan, questions why he and his fellow military drone pilots wear flight s...

Nothing says pathetic loser quite like giving one’s self a cool nickname and hoping it sticks among friends. In what becomes somewhat of a running joke in The D Train , that’s exactly what Dan Landsma...

There’s an interesting premise buried somewhere beneath the rubble of the ramshackle story in The Age of Adaline , a film that tries very hard to be a powerful love story but is, instead, just a ridic...

Synopsis : Steven Spielberg returns to executive produce the long-awaited next installment of his groundbreaking Jurassic Park series, Jurassic World. Colin Trevorrow directs the epic action-adventure...

As its name suggests, True Story is based on the real-life story about how disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill) became involved with accused killer Christian Longo (James Fran...

The worlds of professional bull riding, modern art, World War II, and tough love become entangled in a sappy mess in The Longest Ride , the next Nicholas Sparks romantic drama novel to get the big scr...