Sometimes the idea for an animated film is so out there that it actually works in an absurdist way. And in the world we’re living in right now, the idea […]

There came a point while watching The Zookeeper’s Wife where a nagging but fundamental question kept tapping at my brain. The Polish married couple at the center of the Holocaust-era […]

The second feature from director/co-writer Hunter Adams (The Hungry Bull) is the kind of film that sneaks into a single screen somewhere in town and you wonder one of two […]

A B-movie with a largely A-list cast, the science-fiction monster movie Life probably works best as a place holder until Alien: Covenant comes out in about two months. There’s a […]

If I had to guess, I’d say that CHIPS writer-director-star Dax Shepard was going for an action comedy in the style of the Jump Street films but with even more […]

I’d certainly be within my rights to get long winded about the way director Danny Boyle uses clips from the original, 20-year-old Trainspotting to provide contrast between the drugged-out characters […]

Although I was aware that the premise of The Belko Experiment involved a great deal of death and other bad behaviors, I wasn’t quite prepared for just how vicious and […]

It’s one thing to take a familiar cinematic fairy tale and reinvent it or tell it from different perspective (such as Maleficent’s take on Sleeping Beauty, the more action-oriented Snow […]

The last of the Oscar-nominated Best Animated Films titles to be released in the United States is the French work My Life as a Zucchini, from first-time feature director Claude […]

Judging a film based on a its trailer is something I’m quite vocal about avoiding. I live by the rule that trailers always get it wrong; even when they don’t, […]

There are two things I’m very leary of these days in big-budget studio films. One is handing over a giant franchise or otherwise familiar property (like King Kong, for example) […]

Why does Anna Kendrick have such a difficult time finding material as good as she is? Of late, her best work seems to only be in films that allow her […]