Breaking: The McConaissance is over and out. This was a sparkling (albeit all-too-brief) period during which the appealing Matthew McConaughey made a conscious decision to step back from the lightweight comedies and take ace roles in smart winners such as Magic Mike, Interstellar, True Detective, The Wolf of Wall Street and, of course, Dallas Buyers Club. But […]

If you’re Roma director Alfonso Cuaron right now, you’re popping every single bottle of champagne at your disposal and crafting gracious statements about how honored you are to be included in high company. If you’re Emily Blunt, you’re wondering what you must do to snag just one Oscar nod in your lifetime. (Perhaps play a […]

Fans who watched the first Glass trailer at last summer’s Comic-Con presentation went berserk over the sight. There they were, all three characters of M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero world, reluctantly sitting next to each other in a sparse room. Kevin (James McAvoy) has 20 different personalities, including the vicious beast that tore women apart in 2017’s […]

The backstory is infinitely more fascinating than the story itself. The Upside had its world premiere on a Sunday night in early September at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Stars Bryan Cranston and Nicole Kidman took the stage inside the prestigious Roy Thompson Hall to help introduce it. A surefire crowd-pleaser featuring Cranston and Kevin Hart […]

The timing couldn’t be better for a superheroine origin story on Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At 85 years-old, she’s the glass ceiling-shattering figure of hope who has bipartisan respect and pop-culture hipster appeal. She’s the notorious RBG, for crying out loud! But while On the Basis of Sex makes for a warm companion piece to […]

I interrupt your New Year’s resolution to adapt to a plant-based diet to bring you an important announcement: The 2019 movie lineup has the potential to be epic with an explanation point. Just consider, for example, that you will get follow-ups to beloved classics such as  Toy Story, Star Wars, Frozen and Avengers and that’s just the […]

Keep in mind that sitting through a terrible movie in one of those reclining leather lounge chairs is still more pleasant than 99.999999 percent of all other time-consuming activities. But I’m here today to vent about that .0000001 percent. (Well, .0000002 percent if you count Gotti, which still sits at 0 percent on Rotten Tomatoes). My […]

When Steve Carell hosted Saturday Night Livein November, he neglected to plug Welcome to the Marwenin his monologue. Now I understand why. His new film is gooey dreck that attempts to be a quirky comedy, an earnest drama and a warm-hearted fantasy about the Nazis — and fails mightily at all the above. The entire work […]

A new Transformers movie is here. For the past 11 years, the meaning behind that sentence has ranked up there with “The wind chill makes it feel like 2 degrees.” Don’t need it, don’t want it.  But Bumblebee, a would-be prequel, is most definitely not a bombastic and soulless monster. Not only is it the best film […]

When it comes to villains, former Vice President Dick Cheney makes Darth Vader seem like a cuddly teddy bear. The visually unassuming man, described early on as “monotone bureaucrat,” decided to start a war all for the wrong reasons. Gave the green light to torture foreigners, relying on semantics to keep it lawful. Used his […]