Drug deals encounter Jiu-Jitsu and well-manicured hair in this upmarket remake of what was once a memorable and super gritty Blaxploitation classic. Super Fly from 1972 might have been a haphazard and guerilla-styled shoot in NYC, but at least ...
If you only take away one thing from Morgan Neville’s new documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor, it should be that Fred Rogers, the man behind the long-running PBS children’s show Mister Rogers Neighborhood, was exactly what we always thought he was – just an all-around ...
Dudes, I’m not sure – upon seeing The Nursery – if you’ll be able to piss alone in a bathroom again. Seriously. Do whatever you need to do to convince yourself that, yes, there is nobody in the shower. Keep looking over your shoulder and lie, lie, lie to yourself. But get out of there ...
Geezer comedy goes a bit outside its comfort zone and takes a stab at women this time around with Book Club, a harmless comedy that’s guaranteed to put both a smile on your face with its inimitable charm and your head in your palm with its never-ending cavalcade of cornball jokes and ...
The passage of time can be a quiet fox, running unencumbered so deftly that one is caught unawares as it bluntly and unmercifully makes its presence known. When I sat down to review this Blu-ray, the realisation that 21 years have passed since the death of Chris Farley hit ...
Nicolas Cage plays a retiring cop in professional snowboarder turned director York Alec Shackleton’s 211, a fictionalized version of one of the deadliest (and bloodiest) bank heists in America’s history. Haven’t heard about this one yet? Cage made like five films last year alone that ...
If ever there was a movie that encapsulated the phrase ‘good things come to those who wait’, it would be 2016’s Deadpool. This quirky, meta, R-rated breakout hit sat on actor Ryan Reynolds’ wish list for years and years. He was convinced the Marvel character of Deadpool, ...
"This book is your salvation, dude." With those uttered words, one supernatural book – with names of all the competing actors in a new Martin Scorsese film – completes one struggling actor’s destiny. He will do anything to land the part in it. Dead List, a sort of a ...
Saipan. Google it. The place is a dream. The ocean is the lightest color of blue and the island is a beautiful oasis of sun-drenched highs. Off the coastline of Japan, this place is a paradise for those who don’t realize the secrets its trappings hide. And the five fools headlining this ...
To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie. It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen. Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right ...