'Big Hero 6' Review: 10 Things You Should Know About the Animated Epic
After spending years in Pixar's lamp-shaped shadow, Disney Animation Studios blossomed in a big, big way. With "Frozen," the original animation kingpins came back. (At least publicly, keen-eyed...
View Article'Dumb and Dumber To' Review: 10 Things You Should Know About the Silly Sequel
It's hard to believe that it's been 20 years since Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels (who, it should be noted, got billing above the one-time box office titan) donned ridiculously bad tuxedoes and charmed...
View Article'Foxcatcher' Review: 10 Things You Should Know About the Starry Drama
Bennett Miller is a filmmaker who knows a good true story when he sees one. The director, who got his start with the documentary "The Cruise," and then directed the critically adored, Oscar-strewn...
View Article'Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' Review: 10 Things You Should Know About...
It's that time of year again. That's right folks: Happy Hunger Games! The film franchise based on a series of best-selling young adult novels by Suzanne Collins, set in a futuristic society that pits...
View Article'Selma' Review: 7 Things You Should Know About Ava DuVernay's MLK Biopic
On Monday night (Nov. 17, 2014) in NYC, Ava DuVernay and cinematographer Bradford Young presented a festival cut of "Selma," which premiered last week at AFI Fest to rave reviews and a standing...
View Article'Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' Soundtrack: A Track-by-Track Review
Every year for the past few years, a new "Hunger Games" movie has been unleashed on the world and those releases have come complete with a slew of tie-in merchandise, cunningly synergistic and...
View Article'Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1' Family Review: 5 Things Every Parent...
The penultimate page-to-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" trilogy hits theaters today in what's expected to be one of the biggest releases of the entire year. Academy-Award winner...
View Article'Horrible Bosses 2' Review: 10 Things You Need to Know About the New...
When 2011's "Horrible Bosses" came to an end, did you find yourself wondering (aloud), "What happens next?" Well, you're in luck, because this week "Horrible Bosses 2" is going to answer all of those...
View ArticleNeal Brennan Gets Frank in His 'Frank' Trailer Review (VIDEO)
It's the weekend, and you're looking forward to going to the movies, but you don't know which one you're going to see. Luckily for you, Neal Brennan, comedian and host of SundanceTV's "The Approval...
View ArticleNeal Brennan Will Not Go Spelunking With You After This 'As Above, So Below'...
It's the weekend, and you're looking forward to going to the movies, but you don't know which one you're going to see. Luckily for you, Neal Brennan, comedian and host of SundanceTV's "The Approval...
View ArticleFacebook Owns Neal Brennan's Face in This 'The Congress' Trailer Review (VIDEO)
It's the weekend, and you're looking forward to going to the movies, but you don't know which one you're going to see. Luckily for you, Neal Brennan, comedian and host of SundanceTV's "The Approval...
View Article'The Equalizer' Review: 10 Things You Need to Know About the Denzel...
When you think of the Toronto International Film Festival, you probably thing of highbrow arty fare, impenetrable foreign movies, and the kind of creatively functional, feel-good crowd-pleasers that...
View Article'The Maze Runner' Family Review: 5 Things Every Parent Should Know
"The Maze Runner" is the latest young adult dystopian adaptation to entice audiences with promises of thrills and brave teens overcoming impossible odds. Based on James Dashner's 2009 page-turner, the...
View ArticleNYFF Review: 10 Things You Should Know About 'Gone Girl'
A couple of nights ago, the New York Film Festival kicked off at Lincoln Center, with a starry, splashy premiere – "Gone Girl," the long-awaited adaptation of Gillian Flynn's best-selling mystery...
View ArticleFantastic Fest 2014: Ranking All the Movies We Saw at This Year's Festival
Every year in Austin, Texas, the Alamo Drafthouse holds Fantastic Fest, a celebration of all things wild, weird, and wonderful in worldwide genre cinema. Most of these movies feature one or more of the...
View Article'Annabelle' Review: 10 Things You Should Know About the 'Conjuring' Spin-Off
Last year's "The Conjuring" was something of an anomaly; a major studio horror movie that was rated R just for being so insanely scary. And what's more was the fact that people showed up, making tons...
View Article'Inherent Vice' NYFF Review: 10 Things You Should Know About Paul Thomas...
We're entering the final week of the New York Film Festival, and as such, the big centerpiece film has been unveiled: the world premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling comic crime saga "Inherent...
View Article'Fury' Review: 10 Things You Should Know About the Muddy Brad Pitt Action Movie
War is hell. This much we know is true. It's also the fodder for prestige action movies like "Fury," about a small team of men who pilot and maneuver the titular tank in the waning days of World War...
View Article'Birdman' Review: 10 Things You Need to Know About Michael Keaton's Big...
Michael Keaton is perhaps best known for playing Batman in a pair of Tim Burton-directed superhero movies, whose visionary tone has set the standard for the genre until this day. And now he's stepping...
View Article'John Wick' Review: 10 Reasons You Need to Go See the Movie Yesterday
Last month, we attended Fantastic Fest, a film festival held in Austin, Texas, that is, to use a scientific term, totally bonkers. It's a place where new and incredibly weird genre movies play and are...
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