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Over the years, war films have come into and gone out of vogue. At one point, they were mostly about heroism and valor on the battlefield but that changed with 1946’s The Best Years of Our Lives, William Wyler’s story about how winning the ...

In 2007, Eli Roth contributed a faux trailer to the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez production, Grindhouse. Called Thanksgiving, the movie-that-didn’t-exist depicted the holiday-themed slaughter caused by a maniac in a pilgrim costume. Th...

That Awkward Moment exudes an "old school" romantic comedy vibe. (Since it borrows from Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, the "old" really applies here.) The script has an '80s/'90s sensibility wrapped in a layer of lewd, crude, rude packaging. S...

Released in 1974 to celebrate MGM’s 50th anniversary, That’s Entertainment is a clip-show motion picture designed to highlight many of the studio’s beloved musicals. More than 50 songs are featured from movies as old as 1929 (The Hollywo...

If I were to rank The Big Lebowski, I’d place it in the upper-middle tier of the Coen Brothers’ catalog. It remains one of their most oft-quoted works and arguably their biggest cult classic. A showcase of offbeat humor—some of it genuinely ...

Let me be upfront and admit to admiring the artistry and audacity of Maggie Gyllenhaal's overhaul of James Whale's 1935 classic, The Bride of Frankenstein. This film refuses to be ignored, pulsing with a manic, punk-rock energy. Unfortunately, in t...

Is this really the end of The Conjuring franchise? What began as a one-off haunted house movie in 2013 has since spawned sequels and spin-offs at a pace that would make other horror series envious. But as the creative spark faded and many of the o...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single movie in possession of a good box office fortune must be in want of a sequel. (With apologies to Jane Austen.)There can be little other explanation why, some twenty years after the release of th...

Note: I have avoided explicit spoilers in this review but there's only so much hinting I can do while still making points. From Norwegian writer/director Kristoffer Borgli, the creative mind behind the surreal Dream Scenario, comes The Dra...

The title of this film, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain, is so long that it can function as a plot synopsis in its own right. "The Englishman" in question is British cartographer Reginald Anson, played by Hugh Grant with...