Nothing in Bobcat Goldthwait’s history as a filmmaker or an actor indicates that he’d be the guy to make a found-footage horror movie about Bigfoot, but Read More

Somewhere along the line, the summer blockbuster industry forgot one key ingredient to its success: fun. While Michael Bay bombards us with cutting edge F/X chaos Read More

Any biopic is only as good as the actor portraying the subject. Sid and Nancy works because there is no denying Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb Read More

Calvary is the hill outside of Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified, or so the story goes. While it opens with a quote that references this event, Read More

Whenever we think of action heroes, we automatically assume that someone is a male. That’s because, all throughout the history of the genre, Hollywood has had a Read More

Imagine a myth with all the magic stripped from it. Imagine a script with all its inspiration absent. Imagine a movie star seeking a paycheck, and Read More

When it landed Off-Broadway in 1985, few were ready for Larry Kramer’s incendiary indictment of the AIDS crisis (and the handling of same), The Normal Heart. Read More

The finest film of 2014 is not a new theatrical release but a Criterion DVD release of a long buried film from 1984 — John Cassavetes’ Read More

If the RomCom wasn’t already dead, And So It Goes would be its last gasp final death knell… and not because its Oscar winning leads are Read More

It has an intriguing premise (albeit one explored back in 2011 with Limitless). It features a fetching female lead (you can’t deny Scarlett Johannson’s beauty, even Read More

Ultra-prolific indie director Joe Swanberg has been cranking out multiple films each year for the last several years. A filmography full of partially-formed features based on Read More

A superlative-laden title suggests something that’s on-the-nose sentimental, satire, or subversive irony. Very Good Girls is none of those things, and isn’t much of anything. A Read More

Currently, two cinematic forces are conspiring to overthrow man as the dominate species on the planet. One is a bunch of bombastic giant robots (irrelevant for Read More

Zach Braff’s second feature film from the director’s chair is as ambitious as his first. Wish I Was Here attempts to extract meaning and cull wisdom Read More

When it arrived in theaters last year, Planes was seen as nothing more than a pathetic attempt by the House of Mouse to trade on the Read More

Within the context of this fledgling franchise, The Purge: Anarchy is a whole lot better than the original film. Fleshing out its narrative beyond the basic Read More

Why isn’t Sex Tape funnier? Why does it aim for guttural, sleazeball laughs and end up delivering elementary school snickers? Indeed, pre-adolescents and anyone else with Read More

Nothing in Begin Again, a grin-machine Roman candle of a film, should work. It features more cliches than should be legally allowed. A starry-eyed and uncompromising Read More

Digital video is displacing 35mm film as the primary means of producing, distributing, and exhibiting movies. Digital cameras are smaller, cheaper, and easier to operate. So Read More