Cate Blanchett shines in “Blue Jasmine” (2013), but only figuratively. More literally, as the title character, she sweats, grimaces, shakes and shivers through a masterful
Most people know HBO’s “Westworld” is based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie of the same name, but it’s perhaps less well-known that Seasons 2 and
When I saw “The Ring” (2002) in theaters, people openly gasped at the moment when Samara (Daveigh Chase) crawls through the TV screen. That’d be
Writer-director Steven Soderbergh’s “Solaris” (2002) tries to do something different 30 years after the classic Russian adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem novel. It fails in
We know Woody Allen loves New York City, but that doesn’t mean it comes at the expense of the other great cities of the world.
The first two “Conjuring” films ranked in my top 10s in 2013 and 2016. Despite a bevy of spinoff films in the interim, expectations were
“Piranha” (1978) is sometimes described as a “Jaws” parody, but really it’s a knockoff of the 1975 Steven Spielberg classic, with any laughs being broad
“The Rock” (1996) might not be a good film in any objective sense of the term (although it was nominated for a Best Sound Oscar),
“Magic in the Moonlight” (2014) is a middle-of-the-road Woody Allen rom-com, which still makes it better than most genre works — but leaves one thinking
“Supernova” (2000) was disowned by director Walter Hill (a writer on “Aliens” and “Alien 3”) before its release (the fake name Thomas Lee is used),