“Café Society” (2016), Woody Allen’s beautiful-looking ode to Old Hollywood, was overshadowed by “La La Land” a few months later. This is understandable, as “La
“Eaters of the Dead” (1976) took the longest of any Michael Crichton novel to be adapted to film, likely because it’s the least commercial. But
Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman finds clever ways out of scrapes. He’s not wired to fight back physically or with gunfire. At first blush, “Nobody’s” Hutch
“Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth” (1992) breathes more than the first two films. Rather than the claustrophobia of a single house (“Hellraiser”) or an unrelatable
“The Fifth Element” (1997) requires a pact with the audience that they’ll be up for something stylistically and tonally different from the average SF space
I’m a sucker for movies set in amusement parks, which makes me both adore “Wonder Wheel” (2017) and judge it harshly. The colorful 1950s Coney
“In the Heights” (HBO Max and theaters), the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2005 stage musical, asks a viewer to commit to the NYC neighborhood
All I remembered from my 1998 viewing of “Deep Rising” was Famke Janssen in a sexy red dress; Anthony Heald explaining that the tentacled sea
“Awake” (Netflix) has one of those premises that could turn out ingenious or stupid, but it unfortunately leans more toward the latter. In an unneeded
I have a soft spot for “Lost in Space” (1998). In retrospect, it’s neat how long “Titanic” stayed at No. 1 at the box office, but