We reviewed Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur for its theatrical release last year, and decided to give it another look as the film makes its way to…
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Opening with a thrilling bank heist perpetrated by a group of highly-skilled and heavily-armed operatives, John Hillcoat’s Triple 9 throws its first curveball somewhere around the 15-minute mark,…
Eddie (Taron Egerton) has spent his entire life dreaming of becoming an Olympic athlete, despite a complete lack of anything that could even remotely be mistaken…
A decidedly old-fashioned yarn about a Puritan family trying to survive in the wilderness of 1600s New England, The Witch feels like the antithesis of modern…
It’s been just over 18 months since a two-minute clip of test footage for a Deadpool film leaked onto the internet. After a bastardized version of the character…
Capital Pictures boss Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is having a crisis – multiple crises, if we’re being truthful. Aquatic musical performer DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) is…
In the winter of 1952, the combination of an arrogant captain and a brutal storm results in the hull of the SS Pendleton rupturing so violently that…
On Sunday night, my first trip to the Sundance Film Festival came to an end with the world premiere of Yoga Hosers, the second installment of…
Leaving a party at his brother’s fraternity, Brad Land (Ben Schnetzer) reluctantly agrees to offer a ride to a pair of guys who claim they saw…
After his mother passes away shortly before the end of his senior year, aspiring street magician Bo (Jacob Latimore) is left as the sole caretaker of…
The idea that the United States faked the moon landing is one of the most popular and long-lasting conspiracy theories, having been around in one form…
After making a splash with his Oscar-nominated drama The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgian director Felix van Groeningen was on hand to open the 2016 Sundance Film…
Burned out by the Hollywood lifestyle, disaffected celebrity Tom (Garrett Hedlund) journeys into the desert to clear his head, but the tranquility and solitude of his…
There may be a few days left on the calendar, but for all intents and purposes 2015 has come to a close, and now it’s time to…
Quentin Tarantino’s eighth feature film, The Hateful Eight, has enjoyed an interesting journey to the big screen. Shortly after being announced, an early draft of the film’s script…
One year after his Oscar-winning portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, Eddie Redmayne turns in the best performance of his career in The Danish…
The original Star Wars films are some of the most iconic and beloved in the history of cinema, a bona fide phenomenon whose popularity has never waned…
Pixar wowed audiences earlier this year with the beautiful and emotional Inside Out, a critical and commercial success that also happened to be one of the studio’s…
It’s been nearly 40 years since we first met Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), the working-class boxer from Philadelphia who held his own against the world heavyweight…
Shortly after the events of September 11th, 2001, a young woman is found murdered and stuffed in a dumpster, all traces of DNA having been bleached from her body. But…
A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas proved that stoners could celebrate the holidays too, and The Night Before seeks to capture some of that same yuletide…
Thanks to a long-running comic strip and a series of classic animated features such as It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Christmas,…
Adapted from Emma Donoghue’s gripping 2010 novel, Room is the story of Jack (Jacob Tremblay), a 5-year-old boy who lives with his mother in a sparse…
In the middle of the night, a virginal young bride wanders the hallways of a sprawling mansion in the English countryside, clutching a candelabra and calling out her…
After spending the bulk of the past decade portraying an assortment of freaks, weirdos and goofballs – with a few notable exceptions – Johnny Depp is finally…
The zombie genre has certainly exploded over the last few years, so it might seem like there aren’t many different ideas left to explore, but that didn’t stop Lionsgate’s Cooties…
From the opening moments, where Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart exhale huge clouds of pot smoke that were obviously added in post-production by a budget-friendly VFX…
Based on the classic 1874 novel by Thomas Hardy, director Thomas Vinterberg’s Far From the Madding Crowd is a stunningly realized adaptation full of sweeping landscapes and gorgeous costumes -…
As a nerdy white kid growing up in small-town Indiana, I wasn’t exposed to a lot of rap music – basically, if an artists wasn’t featured…
One of 2014’s best cinematic offerings was Gone Girl, an engrossing mystery with a stellar cast, helmed by one of my favorite directors. The film was…
The first family of the Marvel Universe is taking another crack at big screen stardom with the new Fantastic Four reboot, from the visionary director of Chronicle, Josh…
Tom Cruise is a man on a mission to prove he’s still a relevant international action star after a string of box office disappointments. Mission: Impossible…
In 1983, Clark Griswold and his family set out on a cross-country journey to the most magical of vacation destinations: Walley World, a near-mythical California theme…
Acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) steps into the ring with Southpaw, a modern boxing redemption tale. The script comes from the brutal mind of Sons…