Entertainment? Not a lick. Inspiration? All burned up by the fire. Only loss and despair are left.
Engaging with The Best Man Holiday feels like watching two totally different movies back to back.
Viewers will be hard-pressed to find much that’s redemptive as they wade through this thriller.
Matthew McConaughey shed 40 pounds for his role as Ron Woodroof, a promiscuous, hard-charging Texan in the 1980s who contracts …
Bad Santa, Bad Teacher and now Bad Grandpa. At least these flicks let you know right up front that they’re …
There’s no country for old sin. That’s what The Counselor tells us. So why does it show us so much …
The more people watch Machete kill, the more I wonder about the danger of forgetting that violence—real violence—isn’t at all …
Runner Runner is the readymade stuff of Saturday night movie dates, right? Wrong.
Don Jon tells us pornography is a terrible, addictive thing—while continuing to gawk and grin at that very terrible, addictive …
Innocents are in danger. Evil is afoot and running wild. An angry “hero” attempts to beat the truth out of …
Such is the power of Howard and Morgan’s storytelling that viewers are simultaneously attracted to and repelled by each.
Everyone’s got a story. We’re all central characters in our own narratives filled with drama, action, passion and comedy. Even …
Riddick, as a person, isn’t all bad. Mostly bad, maybe. But not all bad. If pressed, I guess we could …
So in the end it’s simply a question of who’s been grotesquely impaled and bleeding out on the floor, who’s …