“Imaginary” is the newest chapter of the Blumhouse lineup, directed by “Truth or Dare” producer Jeff Wadlow. Blumhouse has a hit-or-miss roster, and “Imaginary” feels like another chapter in the list of filler films. It suffers from the plague of overly convoluted plots that are executed by overly simplistic means: flat expositional dialogue, car commercial […]
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the vast, impossibly blue Earth below. An astronaut shares, “I really miss the sound of rain and the fresh air that comes with it.” The morose timbre of the astronaut’s voice contrasted with the beautiful image of our planet sets the bleak tone for
A bad first impression won’t necessarily ruin a movie. If anything, it’s more important that a film stick the landing, so the audience doesn’t walk out grumbling, “it was okay, but that ending.” Still, sometimes a movie stumbles so badly in its first five minutes that it never recovers. Such is the case with “Accidental
The Indigo Girls are having a moment. The upcoming documentary “It’s Only Life After All” profiles the beloved singer-songwriting duo Amy Ray and Emily Saliers in a way that feels long overdue. And then, of course, “Closer to Fine,” a single off their second album, released in 1989, showed up multiple times in Greta Gerwig’s
“There are many stories of chivalry where the heroic knight saves the damsel in distress. This is not one of them.” That is how Millie Bobby Brown’s sumptuous new fantasy film begins, so we know from the start that there will be a damsel, she will be in distress, and she will have to get
Before Judd Apatow cornered the comedy market on movies about permanently adolescent men, there was Peter Farrelly, whose movies with his brother Bobby could range from sweetly funny if at times inappropriate like “Dumb and Dumber” or “There’s Something About Mary” to however one would describe the notorious trainwreck that was his solo outing in
The trilogy ended in satisfying fashion in 2016 with the cuddly, constantly hungry Po finally coming into his own in his unlikely role as the Dragon Warrior. He is both the student and the teacher. He has the respect of the Furious Five and his mentor, Master Shifu. He’s proven his bravery again and again
Coming out of “Drive-Away Dolls,” an uproarious, sexy and deliciously feminine B-movie, the immediate thing you might realize is just how dearly this particular Coen Brothers flavor has been missed. You know, that quirky, familiarly zany essence last seen in “Burn After Reading” (or perhaps “Hail, Caesar!”), living on its own zippy and colorful terms,
Now, 189 days into his mission, Jakub Prochazka (Adam Sandler), the forlorn cosmonaut protagonist of “Spaceman,” is hurtling toward Jupiter to study the mysterious Chopra cloud. He is nearing his breaking point. Short on sleep in a malfunctioning spacecraft that has seen better days, what’s really occupying his mind isn’t the mission at hand it’s
Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo so much? Late in “Bring Him to Me,” a new heist-and-its-aftermath thriller directed by Luke Spark from a script by Tom Evans, a ruthless boss dispatches one of their soldiers by shooting a heavy-looking automatic into them eight or nine times, when the
