Movies

Finders Keepers is easily among the oddest, saddest and most hysterical documentaries I’ve ever seen. Is it a tragedy? A farce? A mystery? A…

Take a heaping dose of 1969’s swinging romp Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, add a healthy splash of the middle-aged-parents-trying-to-keep-things-fresh spice of…

Whether you’re a pop culture pundit or merely a diehard movie-lover, Pixar’s 20-year hot streak that began with the release of Toy Story in…

Before his untimely death in 2003 from a grisly suicide (knife wound to the heart) at the age of 34, Elliott Smith was regarded…

Summer is here, and with it comes the usual litany of wannabe-blockbusters vying for your box office bucks. This year brings so many remakes…

Roaring, snarling, screeching into multiplexes this weekend, Mad Max: Fury Road does not disappoint.   It’s currently sitting at 98%+ positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and the very…

Merchants of Doubt is arguably the most important documentary of the past decade, since Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth sounded the global alarm over climate…

A renowned magician spends much of his life’s first 80 years exposing fraud and deception, then later proves to have a secret or two…

Lightning caught in a bottle does not strike twice.   Cliché though that phrase may be, it’s still better than most of the mangled…

One thing that has always baffled me about Hollywood action movies is the shootouts between the good guys and villains.   It doesn’t matter…

Veddy British auteur Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake) is known for his distinctive “kitchen sink realism” approach to filmmaking.   Rooted in his…

The fact that Julianne Moore, one of the greatest working actresses in show business, still feels under-appreciated after over 25 years of daring, startling…

According to Kalique Abrasax (Tuppence Middleton), one of the three royal heirs to the most powerful dynasty in the galaxy, time —not oil, water…

If all you know about this movie is the name and the fact that it’s set in New York in 1981– one of the…

Based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir of the same name, Wild tells the story of a woman who is thoroughly lost in life and decides…

Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort tells the true story of US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history (with…

Angelina Jolie’s second directorial effort clearly aspires to be the sort of inspirational story of “Survival, Resilience and Redemption” that Oscar dreams are made…

The rejuvenation of Walt Disney’s animation arm under Pixar founder John Lasseter (who became the Mouse House’s Chief Creative Officer in 2006) has been nothing…