Inside newly minted teenager Riley, headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s …
Inside newly minted teenager Riley, headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s …
A textbook case of a worthy cause mistaken as screen-worthy. The cause is anti-smoking, the urgency of which is somewhat undermined by the curious fact that no one on screen is guilty of smoking, even in the high-stress environment of the CBS News Department, even in the unwinding environment of …
It had the makings of a sequel — Tiananmen Square Massacre II — written all over it. What began as Operation Dawn, a citywide strike intended to shut down Hong Kong’s traffic grid, ended in days of dissent among students of Hong Kong Polytechnic University that culminated in police brutality. …
The sudden death of his sister-in-law brings unexpected responsibilities to Thien (Le Phong Vu), who is reluctantly tasked with bringing his five-year-old nephew Dao to their countryside hometown. On the road, Thien is drawn into a search for his long-missing older brother, haunted and spurred forward by a series of …
Effective spookiness from director James (Saw) Wan, proving he is quite capable without the torture devices. The movie is all old school: haunted-house premise, practical make-up effects, a palpable absence of digital flourishes. The plot is simple enough: a relatively happy family begins to experience the typical bumps in the …
Boy, that "Chapter 2" in the title is ominous. How long is this book, anyway?
First it's unpleasant, then it's boring. The idea was okay: take the spiritual medium from the first two Insidious movies, and explore her backstory. I mean, she's kind of an important figure, and her job isn't exactly easy, what with all the restless demons out there. Why does she keep …
A parapsychologist's discovers that her family house is haunted in this fourth installment in the series.
The horror franchise’s original cast returns for the final chapter of the Lambert family’s terrifying saga. To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh (Patrick Wilson, who also directs) and a college-aged Dalton (Ty Simpkins) must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family’s …
A fanciful Meeting-of-the-Minds in a Manhattan hotel room in the mid-Fifties between (not all at once) Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joe McCarthy, identified in the script as just the Professor, the Actress, the Ballplayer, and the Senator. The promise of philosophical fireworks is largely unfulfilled, although the …
The Norwegian policier of a few years earlier, and of the same name, is resettled under the midnight sun of Alaska. Fair enough. (The icy moonscape of the opening aerial shots is no less otherworldly.) Both versions, however, complacently advance a lack of sleep as an explanation for all questionable …