After crossing over characters from the original X-Men films with the younger generation in 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past and resetting the narrative timeline so future…
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Jeremy Saulnier’s mesmerizing revenge drama Blue Ruin may not have turned the director into a household name, but it garnered enough critical praise to open the door for his…
Shortly after 6:30am on the morning of December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley sauntered up to the White House entrance gate with a handwritten letter requesting an audience…
It’s been a long journey to the box office for The Huntsman: Winter’s War, the follow-up to 2012’s Snow White and The Huntsman. Despite grossing a…
Disney’s ongoing quest to recycle their classic animated properties and turn them into live-action blockbusters is currently in full swing, and while the results have been…
I distinctly remember the moment I saw the first promotional photo from I Saw the Light, this week’s biopic about country music legend Hank Williams. I…
The year is 1968, and first-time inventor Foster Kalt (Mike Brune) has traveled to a toy convention hoping to sell his creation. A night of drinking…
Midnight Special begins in the middle of the night, with Roy Tomlin (Michael Shannon) peers nervously out the window, surveying the parking lot for any signs of…
The idea behind collective:unconscious sounds fascinating: five indie directors coming together to create short films based on each other’s dreams. But just because an idea looks good on…
In 1983, the Jules Rimet Trophy – awarded to the winner of the FIFA World Cup – was stolen from its display case at the Brazilian…
When Seth (Dominic Monaghan) recognizes former classmate Holly (Ksenia Solo) on a city bus, he tries to strike up a conversation. She doesn’t remember him, and the…
Moving to a new high school in the middle of small town America is bad enough, but an altercation with a fellow student finds Annie (Nichole Bloom)…
Director Fede Alvarez is certainly no stranger to the SXSW Film Festival – his ultraviolent remake of Sam Raimi’s horror classic Evil Dead played to a…
More than two decades after Richard Linklater perfectly captured the feeling of being a mid-1970s high school student in his breakout film, Dazed and Confused, the…
One wouldn’t think that predators and prey would be able to peacefully co-exist, but Disney’s Zootopia posits a world where animals have evolved past their primal…
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…
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…