Oscar’s are approaching on Sunday, March 10th, and movie lovers are anticipating what films, actors, and directors will take home…
The introductory prep school shenanigans—your mom jokes, bartering for weed—in Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers” mostly serve to generate cheap laughs,…
Well folks, Halloween-time rages on. I’m housing chocolate like a pre-ax to the back Joey from “Friday the 13th: Part…
“Saving Private Ryan” is considered by some to be the greatest war film ever made. The 1998 Steven Spielberg epic…
Alexander Payne’s 2004 film “Sideways” (based on the novel by Rex Pickett) ends much like it begins: in a sea…
As political thrillers go, “The Ides of March” is intriguing, focused on the campaign trail rather than the end-game of…
You’ve got to give it to “San Andreas:” it’s probably the first disaster movie to come out in the last…
Biopics are an odd genre. They face many problems, including, but not limited to: is the subject’s life interesting enough…
Near perfect casting aside, the 2007 David Dobkin (“The Judge”) movie “Fred Claus” is also a successful blend of contemporary…
“The Amazing Spider-man 2” proves you can only have as many as three villains in a film to have the narrative…