Just serviceable bunker thriller that asks the question, “Would you want to survive The Big One if it meant being stuck in a windowless concrete cottage with the kind of guy who spent his life preparing to survive The Big One?” (Heck, his own wife and daughter couldn’t stand the …
Scheduled to open at around this time last year, the film was pulled and forgotten until the Digital Gym decided the time was at last right for Nina Geld (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) to have her say. If Sarah Silverman and Sam Kinison conceived a love child, it might look something …
Commonplace instance of a sequel that's really just an alternative version, a completely different cast of characters in a parallel series of contrived chain-reaction accidents with gory payoffs, all to test the dictum that you can't cheat death. Death, evidently, will go to great serpentine lengths to see that you …
John Krasinski directs and stars in a family dramedy involving, wait for it, an uncertain young man on the cusp of fatherhood who returns to his hometown when his mother falls ill. With Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anna Kendrick, Charlie Day, Sharlto Copley, Richard Jenkins, and Margo Martindale as Mom.
Oughtn't that to be Live Free AND...? Isn't dying hard, in the lexicon of this series, a desirable thing? (It ain't over till the bald guy says, "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.") Bruce Willis, a dozen years since he last got into the part of John McClane, is still in good shape, but …
More accurately Scott Pilgrim vs. Seven Evil Exes, six guys and one girl whom he must in some sense “defeat” in order to win the hand of the pink-haired, then blue-haired, then green-haired girl of his dreams. (Literally she first appeared to him, on skates, in a dream.) The serial …
Kurt Russell goes back to his beginnings: silly Disney family films, this one a sort of live-action version of The Incredibles, with Russell and Kelly Preston as the superhero parents (realtors by day) of a "late bloomer" who in his freshman year at the elite prep school must be assigned …