Welcome back one and all to the weekly box office report! As is always the case, each and every Sunday you can expect a look at what made the most money in theaters, as well as just how all of the new releases fared. This week, a surprise upset could …
Last month, the Critics Choice Documentary Awards announced their nominations, beginning to suggest which documentaries could be the Academy Award favorites this year. Tomorrow, the awards show takes place (full disclosure: I’m a voting member o…
In just about two months, the Academy Award nominations will be announced. Between now and then, it’s going to be a mad dash, what with the shortened Phase Two this year, to establish movies and performances as the ones to beat. This will lead t…
World War II epics used to be a dime a dozen. Reliving the United States’ finest hours on the battlefield, filmmakers flocked to the conflict in order to tell tales of heroism. More recently, movies have largely eschewed this topic, unless a dir…
Ever since the very first Trailer for Last Christmas was released, something felt…off. The story shown just seemed to be hiding a little bit of information. This led to subsequent analysis and over analysis of the little bit of footage, leading …
Nobody handles a couple breaking up quite like Noah Baumbach. Going back to The Squid and the Whale, the filmmaker depicted marriage and divorce with a razor sharp eye for detail. Now, he’s back in that realm with his best work to date in Marria…
It takes real courage to put your life, warts and all, out there on display like Shia LaBeouf is willing to do in Honey Boy. Willing to go all in, LaBeouf has penned a biographical drama that will almost certainly make you look at him in a different w…
Welcome back one and all to the weekly box office report! As is always the case, each and every Sunday you can expect a look at what made the most money in theaters, as well as just how all of the new releases fared. This week, a blockbuster franchise…
What a beautiful little surprise Adopt a Highway turns out to be. This Ethan Hawke star vehicle is tender, touching, and altogether a moving experience. An independent drama with modest aspirations, the filmmaking debut of actor Logan Marshall-Green f…
Time sure flies! Just yesterday, it seemed like Halloween, right? Sorry, couldn’t resist a bad joke. Anyoway, on to the matter at hand. One and all, I’d like to welcome you back to a little thing I like to call the month of November. Yes, if you…
Harriet Tubman is an essential part of American history. You don’t get put on currency (or at least was supposed to be placed on it) for no reason. So, a cinematic telling of her story has been a long time coming. However, a traditional biopic w…
We bow down before the artist that is Martin Scorsese. No one makes a crime film like him, and no one has tried to make one quite like this. Yes, as much as The Irishman is an event due to Scorsese reuniting with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci (among ot…
There’s an admirable quality to the earnestness with which Edward Norton has tackled this adaptation of Motherless Brooklyn. A supposedly unfilmable novel, Norton has opted to make it his sophomore directorial outing. Bold move. Unfortunately, a…
For decades, the Terminator franchise has opted to largely make Arnold Schwarzenegger its central aspect/selling point. However, since The Terminator and especially Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the series has had severely diminishing returns. So, chang…
Welcome back one and all to the weekly box office report! As is always the case, each and every Sunday you can expect a look at what made the most money in theaters, as well as just how all of the new releases fared. This week, former champs Joker and…
If it’s a Saturday after a busy week, that can only mean one thing, right? Yes, it’s time for another review round-up to help catch us all up on some of the smaller releases hitting theaters this weekend. As per the usual, we have three ve…