In Theaters

Suddenly, from the enveloping shroud of irrelevance busts Sean Penn onto the scene with what seems to be the latest path for any Hollywood leading man to rediscovered glory: an ass-whoopin’, guns-a-blazin’, globe-hoppin’ action flick a la Kevin Costner in 3 Days to Kill or ...

Turn up the schlock, man. The B-movie genre gets elevated with this bucktoothed bloodletting bonanza. Having just seen it, I am here to testify that Zombeavers, a film that is as cracked as its title, is one helluva “dam” time at the movies.  Mixing biohazard material with nature-dwelling ...

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’s biggest accomplishment may be that it dispels the widely accepted notion that sequels rarely ever work. Though it lacks the same touch of surprise and magic that endeared the original to millions of unsuspecting fans, The Second Best  ...

And you thought Jar Jar Binks was annoying. Neill Blomkamp, the director behind the Oscar-nominated District 9, continues to disappoint in his beloved Science Fiction genre. Having publicly acknowledged that he screwed Elysium up by filming an unpolished script, he moves ...

What’s the hallmark trait of a movie sequel that has nothing to offer? No, not semen sight gags, silly. Although there are  plenty of those in Hot Tub Time Machine 2, we were going for acid trip. After all, what better way to kill off large chunks of vacant runtime than by  ...

Mcfarland, USA shouldn’t work. Its stock story about a white coach in a small rural town who transforms a band of ethnic misfits into a well-oiled championship team is just too commonplace and smells like a prefabbed assembly line sports drama. But it’s not  ...

Those Russians. So many contributions to the world: the space race; vodka; vowel-deprived surnames; hockey players; vodka; the AK-47; hot tennis players; communism; vodka. And let’s not forget to add filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev whose latest film, the dour Russian  ...

With his slow-burn underwater thriller Black Sea, director Kevin Macdonald continues to explore his fascination with the human psyche under duress. Only this time, rather than the vast expanses of the Peruvian Andes in Touching the Void, or the African nation of   ...

Chasing perfection is a lengthy process, one of trial and tribulation, and for freshman jazz band drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), this is a fact that could be none too clear. Studying at Shaffer Conservatory of Music, in what is assumed to be New York City, Teller discovers the rigors,   ...

In Still Alice, a below average film elevated by an Oscar-worthy performance from an above average A-lister, Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin are fifty-something Columbia University professors living out the American Dream with three grown children, a spacious New  ...