In Theaters

31 years after getting his bike back, Pee Wee Herman hits the road again. And I couldn’t be happier about the results. Opening today in select theaters and available through Netflix is the proper sequel to Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.  While it is the third film in the

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The big star of the show In Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest movie, The Brothers Grimsby, is an elephant penis. And no, I don’t mean Cohen himself, although the guy most certainly wouldn’t balk at playing one if it meant a few laughs. Instead, he’s Nobby Butcher, a terminally ...

If we’re to believe the marketing folks over at Paramount, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is another broad Tina Fey comedy. Then again, they’re the same guys whose Zoolander 2 trailer broke the internet last fall as the most successful comedy trailer launch of all time with more than 52 million views in  ...

Believe it or not, there was once a time – long before the advent of 24-hour electronic entertainment – when the Olympic broadcast was a must watch TV event. The entire world would stop down for a few weeks as every child’s dreams of one day competing on the world  ...

There’s a lot going on in Stephen Hopkins’s double-entendre-titled biopic, Race about one-time fastest man in the world Jesse Owens (Stephen James). Then again, there was a lot happening in the world at the time Owens burst on the scene as record-breaking Ohio State track star and   ...

15 years is a lifetime in the fashion industry. It’s even longer in the one-note joke business. Yet a decade and a half after the original Zoolander walked the runway to deafening indifference, Ben Stiller and Company attempt another milking of a concept that ran its course a  ...

Were they not based a true story, the events depicted in The Finest Hours might feel more like the excessive by-product of Hollywood’s hyperactive imagination than something that actually happened. After all, there’s so much heroism, bravery, and selfless duty going on  ...

With giddy ambition and a newfound optimism in his sails, the new Michael Moore – a more laid-back version of his angry, hot-button, leftist self – brings us the misleadingly titled Where to Invade Next, his first film in six years, and his latest to skewer the American ethos  ...

The unlikely comic pairing of Ice Cube and Kevin Hart gets another go-around as the dynamic duo of dysfunction continue the journey for a second installment in the Ride Along series. Perfectly positioned, once again, in the January dumping ground, Ride Along 2 should ...

There is something powerful when science fiction goes into B-movie mode and sneaks up on audiences with head-spinning moments and WTF endings.  There’s a free-spirited agent driving these movies that gets them outside of the influence of the big studios and they   ...