After what management said, I found it impossible to continue any further as The Reader’s film critic. What did they say? “Scott, I’m sorry to say we’re laying you off.” The real shocker is that, ...
by Scott MarksThis week’s trio was found lounging in an unmarked file box, stuffed with DVD screeners and buried deep in the inner-recesses of my storage locker. The Tillman Story (2010) Director Amir Bar-Lev (My Kid Could ...
by Scott MarksDemocrats in Washington could stand to take a lesson from Hollywood’s demise in the late ‘60s. Voters’ cries for something new, something different, something progressive in a president were answered with a pair of starchy ...
by Scott MarksThere is something stupid-hot about the thought of a monotone, glassy-eyed chick whose frozen kisser prohibits her from cracking a smile while having indiscriminate sex with an array of partners. This is precisely why audiences will want to skip this ...
by Scott MarksThe adaptation of Sue Miller's novel dawdles through some biographical background of doubtful import, and through a standard movie romance blossoming out of a Meet-Cute at the laundromat (she has removed his wet underwear from the dryer in his absence, ...
by Duncan ShepherdThe first of the Bond movies self-consciously to flout the tendency of some commentators to tsk-tsk about the sex and violence of the series, and the first of them to exhibit a formidable degree of self-assurance about establishing a separate ...
by Duncan ShepherdFrom Life After Beth to Black Bear, Aubrey Plaza had gradually stri...
Images of Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) and Bee (Maria Bakalova) tongui...
It's 30 going on 70 when a big, freaky Friday weekend in Palm Sprin...
Brad Pitt hinted recently that he may be making an early exit from ...
The ScreenVision pre-show reel predicted a $150 million opening. Th...
Standup comic Jo Koy wanted so much to have a sitcom of his own tha...
The time was right for Jordan Peele to become the next M. Night Shy...
A prequel to 2009's Orphan finds 25-year-old Isabelle Fuhrman stepp...
Dr. Nate Samuels (Idris Elba), guilt-stricken over his handling of ...
Olivia Newman makes her theatrical debut with this all for one, one...
Nothing more ought to be required to dismiss Steven Spielberg's pre...
First in the film series employing Ian Fleming's James Bond, Agent ...
After what management said, I found it impossible to continue any further as The Reader’s film critic. What did they say? “Scott, I’m sorry to say we’re laying you off.” The real shocker is that, ...
This week’s trio was found lounging in an unmarked file box, stuffed with DVD screeners and buried deep in the inner-recesses of my storage locker. The Tillman Story (2010) Director Amir Bar-Lev (My Kid Could ...
Democrats in Washington could stand to take a lesson from Hollywood’s demise in the late ‘60s. Voters’ cries for something new, something different, something progressive in a president were answered with a pair of starchy ...
Harper (Mackenzie Davis) invites Abby (Kristen Stewart) to meet her parents and two sisters, all of whom are are operating under false pretenses: Abby was assured by Harper that her potential in-laws would be accepting of their “lifestyle choice,” while ...
by Scott MarksThe adaptation of Sue Miller's novel dawdles through some biographical background of doubtful import, and through a standard movie romance blossoming out of a Meet-Cute at the laundromat (she has removed his wet underwear from the dryer in his absence, ...
by Duncan ShepherdSean Connery's James Bond act at its most blasé. In the fourth installment of the series, there's an almost complete surrender to gadgetry, as 007 flies like Mighty Mouse through sky and sea, en route to thwarting a plot involving ...
by Duncan ShepherdFrom France, a démodé Bond spoof set appropriately in the mid-Fifties and shot scrupulously in the style of the period. What contemporary Hollywood production would impose such self-discipline? Would deny itself a computer and rely on its wits? Director Michel ...
by Duncan Shepherd