An exciting and sometimes funny commercial for what will surely be a delightful action figure, available in three iterations: original plushie, Samurai battle mode, and full robot warrior. Collect them all! Two directors and seven writers (not counting the authors of the original comic book) labored to cobble together this …
Wealthy French lawyer Paul Exben (Romain Duris) wanted to be a photographer, but instead wound up an overworked, almost frenetic career man, pouring money into his family and telling himself that everything is okay. But of course, everything is not okay: his wife feels stifled in her role as suburban …
Documentary proof that not every story needs to be a movie, The Big Uneasy performs the seemingly impossible trick of draining the passion from the story of Hurricane Katrina and the disastrous flooding of New Orleans in 2005. It’s certainly worth understanding the multiple factors that contributed to the levees’ …
At the outside of Jeff Nichols’ gorgeous and grungy look back on the history of the Vandals motorcycle club, we are informed that it is based on The Bikeriders, a book by photojournalist Danny Lyon, based on his interviews with the club’s members — and, significantly, their women — between …
An animated movie about troubled teens, and quite possibly for them as well, because it’s so very like them: alternately sweet and scary, tender and violent, dense and scattered, and oh yes, childlike and adult. (It sure ain’t for kiddies; the people are cartoony animals — dog cops, trash-picker mice, …
Michael Keaton plays Riggan, a guy who used to be a box-office superstar, in part because he played Birdman in three films. (Art improving on life?) Now Riggan (like Keaton) is starring in much artier fare. Sadly, everything is going wrong, and he is routinely haunted by his feathery, famous …
Director, star, and co-writer Nate Parker’s take on Nat Turner’s failed slave uprising is certainly controversial, given its sympathetic portrayal of a religious extremist on a murderous mission from God. But it’s not good: it looks bad, sounds cartoonish, skips jerkily from scene to scene, and seems weirdly illiterate about …
Is director Gabriela Cowperthwaite's documentary an indictment of SeaWorld's use of killer whales as modern-day circus lions, despite the physical and psychic toll that captivity takes on the creatures? Or is it an indictment of SeaWorld's apparent willingness to put its trainers in the water with animals it knows to …
One more failed attempt to make an exciting movie about hacking. (The real-life Sony debacle was more entertaining and even dramatic, because it was all about people. Here, it's all about more mundane things. Much more mundane.) Chris Hemsworth (Thor!) plays the handsome hunk who must be retrieved from prison …
Johnny Depp disappears into the role of real-life gangster Whitey Bulger — receding hairline and icy blue eyes abetted by vocal fry and a sour sneer compounded from equal parts rodent and snake. But the real story here is FBI agent John Connolly (a beefy Joel Edgerton), who gets the …
The first entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to feature a black superhero feels more like the first black Bond film, minus the cavalier attitude toward women and plus some supernatural elements. You’ve got your central drama over who gets to get their hands on the advanced technology. Your tour …
Black Panther - The first entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to feature a black superhero feels more like the first black Bond film, minus the cavalier attitude toward women and plus some supernatural elements. You’ve got your central drama over who gets to get their hands on the advanced …
The first entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to feature a black superhero feels more like the first black Bond film, minus the cavalier attitude toward women and plus some supernatural elements. You’ve got your central drama over who gets to get their hands on the advanced technology. Your tour …
The first entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to feature a black superhero feels more like the first black Bond film, minus the cavalier attitude toward women and plus some supernatural elements. You’ve got your central drama over who gets to get their hands on the advanced technology. Your tour …