Columbia Pictures
Caught Stealing is a fast-paced throwback movie where both action and characters are balanced with precision, and its visuals are timed perfectly to elicit gasps of anxiety and pain that merge with hard-earned laughs.
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Full of surprises, wit, humor, and genuine chair-jumping frights, I Know What You Did Last Summer has risen from the ashes with this (mostly) excellent reprise.
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Karate Kid: Legends is a love letter to fans old and new, but one that paints over its characters and their development in favor of speeding the plot along.
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The fun doesn’t stop with Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) in their latest buddy-cop sequel, Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Not even its serious-as-a-heart-attack (pun kinda intended – there’s one of those in the movie) stakes that threaten to ruin our beloved characters can halt how much oomph directing partners Adil […]
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Look. I grew up on the Garfield comic strip, as my parents were Washington Post subscribers when I was a kid. My oldest sister had a scrapbook filled with early Garfield strips, back when he was a little more svelte, not the rotund, jovial character everyone knew from the mid-‘80s onward. My parents bought me […]
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This new batch of Ghostbusters films has a wonderful way of making you grin like a goofy idiot, from the opening frames to the final credits. In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, co-writer Gil Kenan takes the directorial reins from fellow co-writer Jason Reitman and, for better and worse, doesn’t deviate much from the blueprint of Ghostbusters: […]
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Now, this is what superhero sequels should be like – a radical deepening of emotional and thematic material accompanied by enough style and visual flair to tie it all together. Sure, some of the Marvel Cinematic and DC Extended Universes (along with some other similar comic book-themed franchises) get it right from time to time, […]
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Either I’m getting old and sentimental, or the Hotel Transylvania movies are getting better as the series goes on. Whether or not it has to do with the absences of series director Genndy Tartakovsky (who steps into co-writing and executive producing roles) and star Adam Sandler (replaced by Brian Hull in this movie), the series […]
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Six strangers. Seven different rooms all capable of providing severe maiming or instant death. Sounds like the latest in the Saw franchise, yes? Welcome to Escape Room, which is, essentially, “Saw-lite” for the PG-13 crowd. Minus the gore, swearing, and the excessively-green-tinted photography, Escape Room comes off genuinely heart-palpitating, with more than its share of […]
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(Originally published at Gunaxin on December 13, 2018.) Recently, on the knockout episode “Jeremy Bearimy” of NBC’s “The Good Place,” lead character Eleanor Shellstrop makes a list of rules concerning how life should be governed. “Rule number one: I get to do whatever I want, and you all just have to deal with it. Rule […]
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