I really want to like just one of these big studio monster movies. The appeal of watching massive hunks of CGI crash their big old bodies into each other while buildings crumble beneath them is far from lost on me.…
Tyler Perry’s Acrimony Movie Review: Taraji P. Henson can’t save this disaster
As Taraji P. Henson’s Melinda begins to spin her web of woe while puffing on a cigarette in a therapist’s office, she insists she is not a stereotype. She practically steps into the audience with these words, intending to deflect…
Tomb Raider Movie Review: Alicia Vikander carries it as far as she can
In adapting Square Enix’s revisionist take on the iconic video game character Lara Croft, director Roar Uthaug finds himself in a strange position. He carries an obvious love for the material, painstakingly recapturing the harrowing jungle adventure that rips the…
Movie Review: The Vanishing of Sidney Hall is a tonal disaster
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of The Vanishing of Sidney Hall is that nobody told writer/director Shawn Christensen that his gag-on-impact green smoothie of dated arthouse tropes was, in fact, a comedy. The saga a pretty boy ink-jock who becomes internally…
Black Panther Movie Review: A joyous celebration of Marvel’s newest superhero
From the moment that king T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and his entourage fly through a portal into the African wonderland of Wakanda, director Ryan Coogler pulls no punches. He’s come to show us that this sprawling technological city on a Vibranium…
Tom Cruise Defies Death Once Again in Mission: Impossible Fallout Trailer
The Mission: Impossible series has always been earmarked by a change in director with each installment. However, with Fallout, Rouge Nation helmer Christopher McQuarrie returns to bring us a true sequel to that film. The trailer certainly strikes a similar…
Movie Review: 12 Strong
About an hour into 12 Strong, I started to realize that I was periodically tuning out to mentally watch the better films that were so obviously being cannibalized. Where the best war movies present the atrocities of combat as nothing…
