In Theaters and Digital

Whatever you do, do not die in this hospital.  A place of healing it is not.  Full of bizarre doctors with too much time on their hands to experiment on their patients, this is absolutely not a place you want to be a patient of for very long.  Some people don’t have a choice, though ...

When asked where she’s from, the titular character in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird betrays her home town of Sacramento for the opportunity to look just a little bit cooler in the eyes of a potential suitor. She says, “San Francisco.” We’re all just a tiny bit ashamed of our roots  ...

Because why not?  Give me a title like that and you’ve already got my ass in the seat.  Bore me to tears with long stretches of agony and no joy to be had and I will bounce like any other mofo.  The last thing I expected from Cohn was a SAW knockoff. ...

One of the literary world’s great moral fables is the subject of The Man Who Invented Christmas, a delightful little film that covers the inspiration and creative process behind Charles Dickens’s writing of A Christmas Carol. Though Dickens didn’t actually invent Christmas, his novel ...

“Good afternoon, you must be Martin,” is the greeting received for the mysterious teenager standing just outside the open door of the Murphy household.  Without a second thought, he is invited into their home.  Big mistake.  Let the unwinding of a very straight-laced life  ...

Imagine if Gabby Hayes hit the trail on a mission of revenge for the coldblooded murder of John Wayne?  That’s the revision to the western genre that I’d be most interested in partaking right about now and, as a matter of fact, that’s exactly what you have with the excellently  ...

Racism, class, friendship, brotherhood, and man’s relentless struggle against the land come together poetically in filmmaker Dee Rees’ Mudbound, the spectacular follow-up to her 2011 debut feature, Pariah. Any thoughts of a lucky first strike with Pariah can be put to bed as Mudbound is ...

As a lifelong reader of DC Comics, this newest entry into the DCEU should be a momentous occasion: the first film ever to depict all their marque characters together on the big screen. Having left the movie a couple of hours ago, if I had to sum up Justice League in one word,  ...

A broadcast baking show gets roasted in Cook-Off!, a not-so-new comedy opening in select theaters and On Demand everywhere this Friday.  Originally filmed in 2007, Cook-Off! has long been baking in the oven.  Inexplicably so, it seems, too. ...

Say what you will about Lyndon Baines Johnson. Yes, he was ornery. Yes, he was bullish. And yes, he was probably one of the most foul-mouthed and crude presidents in our nation’s hist... well, er... never mind. ...