The Judge is exactly the kind of soul food movie audiences crave during the fall season.
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Movie Review: ‘Dracula Untold’
If Legendary Pictures and Universal really want this new monster universe to work, they’re gonna have to step up their game.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Macbeth’ (1971) – Criterion Collection
If you are willing to trudge through the mire and muck, the pessimism and darkness, the grotesque and graphic violence, you’ll find a great artist and some of his best art.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Gone Girl’
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike play Nick and Amy Dunne Gone Girl, a tense drama-mystery film directed by David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club), and adapted from the book of the same name by author Gillian Flynn. Flynn also wrote the screenplay. Strong narrative elements, deliberate pacing, and emotional situations …
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Maps to the Stars’
Agatha is the catalyst who sets the heavens in motion back to her beginnings in this sometimes sardonic always intriguing and deep film by David Cronenberg.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Gone Girl’
Not just one of the year’s best thrillers, but one 2014's best films period.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘The Paranormal Diaries: Clophill’
Keep expectations low and you might find some entertainment.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Heaven Knows What’
"Heaven Knows What" is not an easy film, but it's important, making us uncomfortable in its unrelenting "in your face" examination addiction's darkness.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘The Calling’ (2014)
A better-than-average thriller starring Susan Sarandon and Ellen Burstyn.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Equalizer’ (2014)
A big ol’ blast of badass that audiences are in dire need of.
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