'Jupiter Ascending' Review: An Impassioned Defense of the Wachowskis' Space Epic
Sometimes a movie can be doomed before it even opens. This happens when a film is discussed openly without anyone having firsthand knowledge of (or even having seen) it, and it becomes something of a...
View Article'Focus' Movie Review: A Pretty-as-a-Picture Crime Caper
"Wait, what is 'Focus' again?" This is a question that is usually fired back at me, over the past few weeks, when people ask me what I've seen recently and really liked. Lately, when I run down the...
View Article5 Things Every Parent Needs to Know About 'Insurgent'
"Insurgent," the second installment in Veronica Roth's "Divergent" trilogy, is a true middle book, and the adaptation is no exception. There's less background exposition and more plot twists and...
View Article'Home' Review: 5 Things Every Parent Needs to Know
"Home" is the latest family-targeted adventure to pair a human kid with a friendly extraterrestrial. Like "E.T.," the big theme of the movie is finding your people. After the invasion of the...
View ArticleSXSW 2015: Ranking All 21 Movies We Saw at This Year's Festival
South by Southwest (SXSW) is the best week of the year for film fanatics. Period. It's in a wonderful place (Austin, Texas), sweetened by a lovely atmosphere that mixes the highbrow appreciation of...
View Article'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Review: 5 Things Every Parent Needs to Know
Joss Whedon returns to write and direct another massive Marvel spectacle with "Avengers: Age of Ultron," the sequel to "The Avengers," the third highest-grossing movie of all time. Iron Man, Thor,...
View Article'Pitch Perfect' 2 Family Review: 5 Things Every Parent Needs to Know
The Barden Bellas are back, folks, and this time they've been the reigning U.S. a cappella champions for three years running. But after one big rip in Fat Amy's costume, the winning team turns into an...
View Article'Tomorrowland' Family Review: 5 Things Every Parent Needs to Know
"Tomorrowland" is Disney's new sci-fi adventure starring George Clooney and Britt Robertson. Like the land it's named after in the Disney theme parks, the movie is a tribute to the future and how...
View Article'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Opens to 97 Percent Rating on Rotten Tomatoes
With great hype comes great responsibility, and it looks like "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is living up to its end of the bargain.Early reviews are in for "Episode VII" -- which comes out in two days...
View Article'Alice Through the Looking Glass' Family Review: 5 Things Every Parent Should...
"Alice Through the Looking Glass" is the sequel to Tim Burton's 2010 "Alice in Wonderland," starring several of the same stars (Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, and Helena Bonham Carter)...
View Article'The Secret Life of Pets' Family Review: 4 Things Every Parent Should Know
"The Secret Life of Pets" is an animated buddy comedy adventure following the story of a New York City dog Max (Louis C.K.), who has it good with his human Katie (Ellie Kemper) until she brings home a...
View Article7 Things You Need to Know Before You See 'The LEGO Batman Movie'
This weekend, "The LEGO Batman Movie," a spin-off of 2014's masterful "The LEGO Movie," opens in theaters everywhere (get your tickets now!). This time, everyone's favorite caped crusader (once again...
View ArticleThe Scariest Part of 'Armageddon' Isn't the Asteroid: Podcast
You won't want to close your eyes. You won't want to fall asleep. 'Cause we're talking about "Armageddon," and you won't want to miss a thing. This week, the CAN'T WAIT! crew (Tim Hayne, Rachel Horner,...
View ArticleThe Confusing AF Circus Party of 'Two Weeks Notice': Podcast
Is it "Two Weeks Notice" or "Two Weeks' Notice"? When you live in a world of oblivious billionaires and binge-eating activist lawyers, who cares?! This week, we watched the Sandra Bullock / Hugh Grant...
View Article'Timecop' Is a 98-Minute High Kick to the Face: Podcast
"Where we're going, we don't need scientific accuracy," is a line someone should have uttered in the subject of this week's podcast, 1994's "Timecop," a movie that explains time travel by way of...
View Article'The Craft' Is a Wicked '90s Time Capsule That'll Make You Hate Los Angeles:...
"We are those 'The Craft'-loving weirdos, mister." Well, half of us are, the other half want to invoke Manon and get back the hour and 40 minutes spent watching the movie. Tim picked the (apparently...
View ArticleThere's a Lot We (Still) Don't Know About 'John Carter': Podcast
What's left to say about one of the biggest bombs in box office history? Plenty, when that bomb is Disney's 2012 sci-fi action epic "John Carter." This week's pick comes courtesy of special guest Drew...
View Article'Deep Blue Sea' Is the Guilty Pleasure You Need Right Now: Podcast
"Deep Blue Sea" has everything: shape-changing genius sharks, maddeningly convoluted plot points, comic relief from LL Cool J, water-related puns, and more shockingly brutal deaths than all six seasons...
View Article'Practical Magic' Is a Two-Hour Identity Crisis: Podcast
Witches (played by box office royalty Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman), romance, a family curse, and sisters with an immutable bond -- on the outside, that's everything one would need to cast a spell...
View ArticleJust How Many 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' Post-Credit Scenes Are There?
Don't get up when those credits start rolling after "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2." Director James Gunn revealed on Twitter that -- contrary to one report -- there are not four but five post-credit...
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