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A film that at least tries to work on several different levels, The Yards is an intriguing if not necessarily exciting crime thriller about, well, a lot of things. It’s
A film that at least tries to work on several different levels, The Yards is an intriguing if not necessarily exciting crime thriller about, well, a lot of things. It’s
In case you were like me and thought that making an entire movie based off an unfunny internet meme was the lowest point cinema could go, rest easy: That Awkward
The Paranormal Activity franchise has been on the decline for years, reaching an all-time low with Paranormal Activity 4 in 2012. And now 2014’s Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones arrives not in the trademark Halloween month,
Kick-Ass came out in 2010 and was a surprising hit. It was an ultra-violent, highly funny movie about what would happen if real life superheroes tried to exist, and succeeded
In 2005, because Starsky & Hutch made a large amount of money at the box office, a feature-length film based on The Dukes of Hazzard was released. It, based on
I imagine the filmmakers and studio behind The Dukes of Hazzard looking at the Starsky & Hutch movie, seeing how much money it made by being incredibly stupid and intermittently
2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street is both an idiosyncratic Martin Scorsese picture and a considerable change of pace for the seasoned filmmaker. After dabbling in the PG-rated, family-oriented Hugo in 2011, Scorsese returns
Either a good romantic comedy or an anti-rom-com, Celeste and Jesse Forever is a movie about characters in love, out of love, and both at the same time. It feels
I was pretty much on-board with what Postal had to offer as soon as its first scene hit the screen. In this scene, two terrorists have hijacked a plane and
With film studios now desperately throwing as many brand name characters at the wall to see who sticks, it’s Jack Ryan’s turn to get another look-in. An iconic character from
In the center of Good Will Hunting is a lead character put in the middle of several opposing opportunities. It’s for this reason that its seemingly unrelatable protagonist will be
I, Frankenstein belongs alongside the likes of Underworld and Van Helsing. If you’re a fan of both of those films, chances are you’ll also like this one, even if it
The fate of the world is at stake. It’s always at stake in these sorts of movies. In this specific film, Dragonball Evolution, it’s at stake because a green-face alien,
Although About Time is only Richard Curtis’ third directorial undertaking, the writer-director has been penning romantic comedy screenplays since the 1990s, developing a filmmaking voice that’s sentimental yet affecting and thoughtful. Although
They say that things develop more slowly in the south and that’s exactly the approach that Mud takes to tell its story. This is a slow-moving drama centered around a
It’s rare that a series is still good by its fourth installment. With rare exceptions, by this point the films are still being made with the sole intent of making
After the slight misstep that was Lethal Weapon 2, I questioned whether or not the filmmakers had run out of ideas for its two lead actors. Had all the possible
If something worked once, it will work again. Such is the logic of the filmmaker, or perhaps the studio who hired the filmmaker. Lethal Weapon 2, the not-cleverly-named sequel to