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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 a refreshingly imaginative way, Famuyiwa manages to incorporate all three meanings into   ...

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 “hello" to the end of Cameron Crowe’s do-no-wrong run of meaningful   ...

All jokes about titles aside, Gone Doggy Gone is not a parody. It IS; however, very funny as it examines the uninspiring relationship of one couple so completely obsessed with their Teacup Yorkie that they are willing to pay $30,000 for its safe return when it is dognapped. Imagine  ...

We all knew this wasn’t going to be good. The 2015 remake of the 1982 horror classic is for the most part, a waste of time. Unnecessary comes to mind. Back in the 1980s, Steven Spielberg was hot property and penned the original, and left the directing task up to Tobe  ...

More creative than it is philosophical (even though it really, really wants to be both), Tomorrowland’s future-bound trajectory resides inside an adventure that recalls the type of kid-against-adult “message” movies Walt Disney used to make every Easter when I was young   ...

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 suits. It’s a fair question since, rather than strapping into the cockpit of a  ...

Produced and directed by Aaron K. Carter, Dead Kansas is the current darling of the underground zombie genre. The horror-comedy is as independently spirited as modern filmmaking gets. It’s raw, comically acted, and absolutely inventive in how it portrays the zombie ...

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 Landsman (Jack Black) does in his desperate attempts to overcome his lonely  ...

Reese Witherspoon goes a mile-a-minute with a Texan drawl in an unfunny Hot Pursuit as Officer Cooper. Forgetting what made previous characters like Elle Woods and Tracy Flick so memorable, Witherspoon simply coasts here as the only female cop on the San Antonio  ...

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 ridiculously contrived message film about, well, let’s see… about why it’s valuable to  ...