Prior to this, “fresh and dipped” meant a preference for hand-packed ice cream cones. Any fashion doc that comes out of the gate championing Little Richard as the architect of hip hop habiliment and an “iconic symbol of freedom” can’t be all bad. But without so much as a hint …
Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake star as physically perfect specimens, each unable to maintain a committed relationship, who decide to use each other for sex. It’s an attempt to parody romantic comedies that quickly disintegrates into precisely what it’s spoofing. This thing stank when they called it No Strings Attached. …
Was this remake necessary? A one-mile-square housing development situated in the middle of the Las Vegas desert is the setting for this digitized facelift of Tom Holland’s ho-hum 1985 cult-horror item. No one believes Anton Yelchin’s claim that neighbor Colin Farrell is a vampire and responsible for the death of …
Middle-aged dental technician Armando (Alfredo Castro) desired no physical contact with the impoverished straight boys he took home until the night 17-year-old Elder (Luis Silva) beat the feathers off the chicken hawk. True to its title, writer-director Lorenzo Vigas’s use of contrasting focal lengths says more about Armando’s detached outlook …
The lighter-than-air unbroken take that opens the picture is director Jason Reitman’s way of demonstrating that he’s inventive enough to do something with his camera other than dangling it before his cast’s faces, which is precisely and unfortunately the main mode of expression he leans on through the rest of …
Like the Broadway-bound Ice Capades holding its first out-of-town tryout that it’s destined to become, Frozen is a glacially stiff, perpetually unamusing animated musical with a talk-singing score that will leave one pining for the lifeless soundtrack to The Princess and the Frog. Chris Buck (Tarzan) and Wreck-It Ralph co-author …
Like the Broadway-bound Ice Capades holding its first out-of-town tryout that it’s destined to become, Frozen is a glacially stiff, perpetually unamusing animated musical with a talk-singing score that will leave one pining for the lifeless soundtrack to The Princess and the Frog. Chris Buck (Tarzan) and Wreck-It Ralph co-author …
Instead of going to a hot boy’s Halloween party, Wren (Victoria Justice) is ordered to take her 8-year-old, bonbon-eating bon vivant brother, Albert (Jackson Nicoll) trick or treating. When first we meet the brawny tyke, he is parked naked on the bowl dropping a deuce while sis finishes up her …
No sooner does the brief, biographical opening credits sequence end then former U.S. representative Gabby Giffords is lying in a hospital bed, a gunshot wound to the head making it next to impossible for her to do something as simple as giving a thumbs up. Her husband, retired astronaut and …
True-life unsolved mystery, set in the early ‘30s, about a young German doctor and his mistress who turned their backs on civilization to find the meaning of life on an uninhabited island. But his writing draws attention to their remote corner of the globe, and before long, paradise becomes the …
An amateur cast — under the supervision of equally green storytellers — trapped in an old, dark schoolhouse, are systematically done in by a mysterious, noose-bearing boogeyman. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Left-to-right the camera goes, what random flashes of sure-fire horror the superabundant swish pans eventually rest …
From John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the team that crapped out the saddening remake of Vacation, comes something a bit more tolerable. As the competitive couple whose weekly game-playing ritual turns deadly after an even more cutthroat participant brings a corpse to the party, Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman …
Tina (Carlie Guevara), a streetwise Mexican trans woman, supports her equally undocumented grandmother as an Uber driver in New York. She adores her granny, but Tina is not one to take advice from old people. Is there an actor out there more trusting than Ed Asner? He plays Tina’s shrink, …
It took time, but this ‘catfishing’-style doc eventually reeled me in. Amina, author of the wildly popular titular Syrian blog, disappeared from sight, but not before exchanging heated love letters with Canadian Sophie Deraspe, a fan she’d never met. There are a lot of lonely, desperate people online and hell …
Celebrated British stage director Michael Grandage tries his hand at making a movie with this adaptation of A. Scott Berg’s biography of famed American literary editor Maxwell Perkins, starring the invariably faultless Colin Firth. Not surprisingly, the cast, composed of Awards-season heavyweights, are all given turns at bat. Of Perkins’s …