Encanto starts out being charming and a bit too much like a typical Disney movie. It’s rather sugary and hypomanic. Many of the words in the rap singing will go over many people’s heads, but the viewer easily gets the impression that the household is a most happy place, and that the Madrigal family’s powers to do good […]
If you like paying additional money to see the exact same movie you have already watched, the John Wick sequel is the perfect movie for you. Reeves and his stunt director from “The Matrix Trilogy” return for Chapter 2, which picks up right where the 2014 film left off. The opening sequence is loud, violent
This is the seventh in a series of Ice Age films, and is largely empty animation and special effects without much of a story. My interest was piqued when I saw that Neil DeGrasse Tyson was going to be one of the voices in the film, in hopes that it would have some educational value;
Subdued thriller “The Infiltrator” is everything last years’ “Black Mass” wasn’t. While Bryan Cranston’s performance in “Trumbo” likely nudged Johnny Depp out of the best actor race in 2015. The “Breaking Bad” actor might have a more difficult time with a consecutive nod, especially for a film landing so early in the year. Another lite
Despite giving me flashbacks of similar psychology experiment film Stanford Prison Experiment (and there is no room for two films like this in one year), Experimenter once again takes interesting subject matter, but does everything possible to distract the viewer.
A mixed genre of stoner film and action flick, American Ultra doesn’t succeed at either. From the director of Project X, Nima Nourizadeh can’t seem to find the correct tone or balance between the irony and the comedy. Oscar nominated Eisenberg (The Social Network) as usual dissolves into the role, discussing in interviews how he
When Jon Favreau, director of the first two Iron Man films, stepped out at SXSW to open the festival with his admittedly smaller new film Chef, he said this might not be a film for everyone, but that he was so glad independent film was alive and well. The cast Favreau has assembled for a