As big-screen comedies die out, director/co-writer Gene Stupnitsky’s career comes alive with “No Hard Feelings,” one of 2023’s funniest films. The former “Office” writer had
Writer-director Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” (2021, Netflix) makes fun of almost everything in American pop culture and government today. It’s intelligent, but rarely uproariously
I had put off watching writer-director Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” (2017) for a long time. Most of the feedback I had heard was that it’s random and
“Red Sparrow” is boring, a bit confusing, and almost unnecessarily dirty. The main character (Jennifer Lawrence) basically goes to whore school to become one of
The “X-Men” franchise is now a well-oiled machine for its ninth entry, “X-Men: Apocalypse.” Although it has big spectacles – indeed, the fate of humanity is
This summer’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past” does an in-universe reboot of the “X-Men” saga via time travel, similar to the 2009 “Star Trek” movie,
Although I prefer the “X-Men” movies with smaller casts, and especially those that focus in on one character (the Wolverine movies are the only examples
“American Hustle” starts by showing Christian Bale’s combover — understatedly termed “elaborate” by Amy Adams. It’s a perfect lead-in for a movie about a con-man and
The 2012 college a cappella comedy “Pitch Perfect” (now on DVD) is a nice snapshot of youth culture as it features some of the expected cliques and
How in the world does one explain the huge popularity of the “Twilight,” “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “Hunger Games” book/film series? I mean,