In Theaters and Digital

Good Time is the rare but surprisingly effective example of what can happen when a couple of burgeoning filmmakers looking to make a name for themselves are given some money and access to a few big name Hollywood stars. Rarely are such up-and-comers ever given ...

The Hitman’s Bodyguard bludgeons its way into theaters with a rapid-fire hail of machine gun bullets and filthy jokes, neither of which is capable of hitting a target with any amount of consistency. ...

The name is Bang.  Joe Bang.  And, given the chance, he could seriously ROCK your world with one explosion after the other.  He is also merely one in a canvas of eccentric characters that makes Logan Lucky, written and directed by Steven Soderbergh (The Informant and ...

God bless those who’ve waited patiently since the announcement of The Dark Tower’s big screen adaptation. You deserve a medal. The project has been gestating in one form or another for the last decade or so, and after numerous fits, starts, vicious rumors, crew changes, and  ...

Horrifying.  Absolutely fucking horrifying.  And bloody, damn brilliant, too.  If the title, Hounds of Love, makes you think you are in for a romantic comedy then stop.   Breathe deeply.  This tale of kidnapping and torture is the furthest thing from a rom-com and, since there is a  ...

Director Malcolm D. Lee – cousin to Spike Lee – turns the friends-behaving-badly genre on its head with Girls Trip, a riotously funny celebration of woman, friendship, and loyalty that follows the debaucherous antics of four college friends reunited for a girls trip to New ...

Religion, family, politics, culture, life-threatening illness, forbidden romance (and so many other things) get the once-over in comedian Kumail Nanjiani’s The Big Sick, his real-life story that is as heart-breaking as it is funny, and preposterous as it is authentic. Were it not  ...

Want to see something beautiful?  Inspiring?  Want to also bawl your eyes out until they turn permanently red and you become vegetarian?  Okja is the movie for you.  I’ve just seen it and I can’t really talk.  The lump in the throat is too big.  I shouldn’t even be typing at the keyboard ...

If there has ever been a more exhausting exercise in wasted effort than writing about a Transformers film, I don’t know what it could be. Regardless of anything you read here, and no matter the amount of shade thrown by any of the hundreds of publications, websites, forums ...

A beautiful princess-in-waiting.  A bullied teen ready to explore his angst.  And a magical box with transportation powers to Imperial China.  Enter the Warrior’s Gate is a fish out of water narrative on TWO fronts, cleverly tackling both the ancient and modern world in its running  ...