In Theaters and Digital

The monsters are coming! The monsters are coming! The monsters are coming!!! Hooray for the longevity of the B-movie! I am overjoyed to report back to you all that Kong: Skull Island recaptures most of the freewheeling celluloid fun that has been missing from the countless  ...

Cheap to make and exceedingly appealing to the hordes of theater-going teens, young adult novel-to-big-screen adaptions are a financial no-brainer in Hollywood these days. And with the requisite safe and familiar themes meant to reassure teen audiences that the horrors  ...

Let's first have the discussion about the 500-lb gorilla in the room. He's siting right over there between "big box office money" and "who cares?" Of course, I'm speaking of the controversy swirling around the appearance of a very white man (in the form of actor Matt Damon) ...

E.L. James fans just couldn't keep the allure of mainstream theatrical S&M inside their pants when the big screen debut of the first chapter in the author's Fifty Shades novel trilogy, Fifty Shades of Grey hit theaters back in 2015. They set trailer view records with over 114  ...

Folks, forget about the latest horror movie scaring the pants off of viewers in the next theater over. The real shock is coming from I Am Not Your Negro, the provocative new documentary from filmmaker Raoul Peck that is as incendiary and discomforting as its ...

A girl watches a video. A girl receives a phone call.  A girl answers.  A girl is told of seven days to live.  A girl investigates.  A girl knows not why.  A girl becomes a no one.  Jaqen H'ghar, you are so right. With no Naomi Watts and no David Dorfman to turn to, The Ring mythos ...

Gold contains all the ingredients to be a powerful cautionary tale about the true nature of man: there’s the always intriguing Matthew McConaughey with a combed-over balding head and a gut so big it barely hides his tightie whities; there’s a classic adventure story about ...

I didn’t really want to cover this release; I didn’t really want to sit through the hyper-realized gobbledygook that has plagued this series for the last three entries.  Hell, it isn’t very hard to suggest that incoherence has largely dominated ALL of the film adaptations of this  ...

Keep that foot on the gas. Apparently, Vin Diesel has enough machismo left in the tank to take lead position in yet another revved-up and frenetic franchise. Xander Cage, extreme sports hero and sometimes government spy (last seen in 2002), has returned to motorcycle surf  ...

With the tragic events of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing seared deeply into our psyche, questions of whether we are ready for a film about the tragedy swirl around the release of Patriots Day, a new film directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg ...