When District 9 hit theaters six years ago, South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp was (prematurely) crowned the new King of Post-Modern Sci-fi, and he’s been trading Read More

The title says it all. This is the “Second” Best Exotic Marigold Hotel movie to be made. In this demographically designed sequel, the aging female filmgoer Read More

As the saying goes, “A better beer deserves a better can.” And in this case, a film can (or hard drive). In 1983 Amsterdam, a group Read More

Director Akira Kurosawa once recalled an incident from his youth when walking through the carnage of the aftermath of a horrific earthquake in Tokyo with his Read More

The writing/directing combo of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa got their start in kid vid. They worked for Nickelodeon before branching out into film. Their first Read More

If Frankenstein has taught us anything, it’s that when Man plays God, Man usually mucks things up. As a result, it’s the wrath of Satan, not Read More

Everly is like a great mash-up trailer extended to insufferable full length. There are plenty of fun ideas swirling around, but none of them move past Read More

As a member of the Danish avant-garde filmmaking collective Dogma 95 (a group which included Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg) director Kristian Levring upheld a Read More

I’m guiltier than most at giving auteur Atom Egoyan the benefit of the doubt, but with his latest film, The Captive, I’m starting to wonder which one Read More

They say that if you want to get and stay well, avoid doctors and (especially) the hospital at all costs. While medicine is a science, it’s Read More

They say comedy is all about timing. So it would figure, logically, that a movie dealing with temporal displacements and reversals would be a true side-splitter. Read More

The DUFF references 1985 classic The Breakfast Club early on, stating the labels thrust upon Shermer High School students in that film are outdated. It’s a Read More

Back in the ’50s, Disney decided that it needed to supplement its still struggling animation division with a series of live action films. After going through Read More

Sometimes, it’s sex that sells the thrills. In other cases, it’s the suspense that’s augmented by the sensual. Whatever the case, the erotic thriller used to Read More

Call it deviant or kinky, but bondage and discipline, and its psychological cousins sadism and masochism, are not social norms today. Instead, they are Puritanical adult Read More

The spy genre suffers from a sameness that a film like Kingsman: The Secret Service clearly wants to avoid. It has to play by the rules Read More

Combining the sharp genre insight of Shaun of the Dead with the deadpan of a Christopher Guest production, vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows Read More