James Brown Biopic Gets Down With Its Bad Self
DIRECTED BY TATE TAYLOR/2014
The brand new James Brown biopic Get On Up is a mixed bag, both admirable ...
Michael Douglas Continues His Geriatric Resurgence...
Director: ROB REINER/2014
Once Rob Reiner had us laughing as Spinal Tap was turning up their amps to 1...
Incomprehensible Jibber-Jabber
DIRECTOR: LUC BESSON/2014
Luc Besson is too talented and too accomplished of a visual stylist to make a truly awful movie. ...
Richard Linklater's 12 Year Project is a Love Letter to Texas and the Difficulty of Growing Up
Director: RICHARD LINKLATER/2014
One of my favorite trilogies...
A Film That Was Supposed to Have Purged the Last Purge Film is Another Film You'll Want to Purge
Director: JAMES DEMONACO/2014
Last year we were introduced ...
Polanski Takes on Centuries-Old Provocations
DIRECTED BY ROMAN POLANSKI/FRENCH, GERMAN/2014 (U.S. theatrical release)
Roman Polanski, at age 80, has made a lot ...
Sequel Douses its Franchise ill will
DIRECTED BY ROBERTS GANNAWAY/2014
Having not seen last summer’s Disney’s Planes (“From the world of Pixar’s ...
Why This Sequel Can't Quite Rise
DIRECTED BY MATT REEVES/2014
It takes a lots of chutzpah to make, market, and deliver a highly anticipated visual effects dri...
Fade Out, Mr. Ebert
DIRECTED BY STEVE JAMES/2014
Life Itself is the new documentary about film critic Roger Ebert. It is not about film criticism, or even movi...