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It’s funny: I remember enjoying the first Deadpool, but I can only really remember its “essence”, if you catch my drift. I recall the raunchy...

In early January, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek 9 predictions for 2018, including what I felt would be the sleeper hit of the year. I swear, dear reader, that I...

The year is 2045, and Columbus, Ohio has inexplicably become the largest city in the US. In its poorest neighborhood lives 18-year-old orphan Wade Watts (Tye...

After four live-action features of varying emotional and narrative quality, I’d argue that what we now call “Wes Anderson Style” was perfected...

Although marketed as a taut suspense thriller, Red Sparrow is in reality a disturbing drama about the moral compromises inherent to spycraft and the enduring...

This is one of those “what more needs to be said?” reviews. Everybody who sees Black Panther seems to love it. And why not? It’s a satisfying...

It’s a new claymation offering from Britain’s Aardman Animations. It’s about soccer. It pits Stone Age underdogs against Bronze Age elites....

After a pair of exceptionally baffling films – The Master and Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson returns with an original story that is much more...

MOVIE REVIEW The Shape of Water begins with a montage, set to accordion-heavy French music straight out of Amélie, of a mute cleaning lady named Elisa (Sally...

MOVIE REVIEW In January 1994, Olympics-bound ice skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed in the knee by a thug after practice. Within days, Kerrigan’s fellow...

Our Rating: [usr 2.5] An all-female Ghostbusters team is the one genuinely inspired thing about this remake of the 1984 blockbuster. (If you think this...

I can’t break down this film’s plot to the uninitiated without feeling like an idiot. It’s just too convoluted. Thankfully, Marvel...

It’s becoming a habit, but I’d like to start this review with a little anecdote: In 2010, my friend Bill Lebeda at Picture Mill hired me to...