Arts & Entertainment <i>War Dogs</i> Is A Derivative Pack Of One-Note Antiheroes Imagine you're a guy who became somewhat famous, or perhaps even infamous, and you've just found out a major motion picture is going to be made based on that part of your life.
Arts & Entertainment <i>Suicide Squad</i> Is A Huge Swirling Vortex Of Trash Warner Bros. wants to make their DC comic book movies as popular as Disney's Marvel movies have been, with a plan that includes reboots, new standalone hero movies, and a Justice League film,
Arts & Entertainment We Don't Need <i>Jason Bourne</i> Jason Bourne, the fifth film in the franchise, but only the fourth to star Matt Damon as the titular character, is the Bourne movie we don't really need, except perhaps as a way
Arts & Entertainment Pleasantly Cliché-Laden: <em>Star Trek Beyond</em>, Reviewed Early on in Star Trek Beyond, after a failed and ultimately comedic attempt at interstellar diplomacy, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) wearily confesses in his captain's log that his life has "started to feel.
Arts & Entertainment Very, Very Funny: <em>Ghostbusters</em> It's difficult not to consider the 2016 version of the Ghostbusters story without acknowledging the maelstrom that enveloped it from the moment it was announced — fans vigorously opposed to a new version in
Arts & Entertainment Snowball Rules: <i>The Secret Life Of Pets</i>, Reviewed I think everyone has fantasies about what our animals do when we're not around. Do they sit and stare at the door all day, waiting for our return? Do they watch soap operas?
Arts & Entertainment Mainly For The Fans: <i>Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words</i> Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words is a documentary without a single shot of new footage. Instead, the film is comprised of archival video interviews and performances, spanning thirty years
Arts & Entertainment Striving For Wonder: <i>The BFG</i> I never read Roald Dahl's book The BFG as a kid, so pardon me for thinking, for a little while, that the title was short for "the Big Fucking Guy;" turns out it's
Arts & Entertainment Pretty, Disgusting: <i>The Neon Demon</i>, Reviewed You could toss any and all criticisms about Nicolas Winding Refn's new thriller The Neon Demon at me, and I'd probably agree with all of them. A preoccupation with style over story? Sure.
Arts & Entertainment Fame, Skewered: <i>Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping</i> When I saw Judd Apatow was a producer of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a mockumentary that basically got its start as a series of Lonely Island shorts on Saturday Night Live, I
Arts & Entertainment Smart People Making Stupid Decisions: <i>Maggie's Plan</i> Since paying money to see a Woody Allen movie these days is becoming harder and harder to justify, for oh so many reasons, it's nice to see there are alternatives out there if
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: <i>The Nice Guys</i>, <i>Love & Friendship</i> The Nice Guys will prove once and for all that Ryan Gosling is more than just that cute guy from The Notebook. Frankly, he proved that to me a long time ago, with
Arts & Entertainment Thrilling And Serious: <i>Money Monster</i>, Reviewed Going into Money Monster, I had some worries. Julia Roberts' presence in a film hasn't boded well for a while now, and Jodie Foster's work directing movies has been hit or miss, (hit:
Arts & Entertainment The Anti-<i>Batman V Superman</i>: <i>Captain America: Civil War</i> Reviewed Coming out a month after the miserable bomb that was Batman V Superman has only helped to make Marvel's latest entry into the Avengers franchise look like a damn classic in comparison. Captain
Arts & Entertainment Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta (Kitten): <i>Keanu</i>, Reviewed In 2014 Keanu Reeves starred in a movie called John Wick, which was essentially two hours of Keanu killing gangsters because they killed his puppy. It's a good movie, but a hell of
Arts & Entertainment Zero Fun: <em>Criminal</em>, Reviewed Criminal is an utterly ridiculous action movie with a central premise straight out of a 1950's B-horror movie, although that makes it sound like a lot more fun than it actually is, which
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Demolition, The Boss, Miles Ahead Demolition - Everywhere Demolition is an odd movie that attempts to wrench emotions out of its audience, but left me feeling about as numb as its hero. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Davis Mitchell,
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: <em>Everybody Wants Some!!</em>, <em>Born To Be Blue</em>, <em>I Saw The Light</em>, <em>Midnight Special</em> Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a "spiritual sequel" to his breakout 1993 movie Dazed and Confused, and that makes sense. Both take place in a Texas of days-gone-by, and
Arts & Entertainment Thank God For Wonder Woman: <em>Batman V Superman</em> Is A Colossal Waste Of Time Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice is not so much a movie as it is an extended warning: You comic book movie fans better like this, because there's going to be a hell
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Allegiant Part 1, Eye In The Sky, The Bronze, Hello My Name Is Doris Hello, My Name Is Doris - Embarcadero Sally Field's first starring role in more than 20 years is a retooling of the romantic comedy formula that contains virtually no actual romance and gets
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Knight of Cups, The Brothers Grimsby 10 Cloverfield Lane - Everywhere 10 Cloverfield Lane arrived almost out of the blue, with a trailer dropping before anyone even knew the movie existed. Since it was produced by J.J. Abrams
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, London Has Fallen, Zootopia Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - Everywhere Tina Fey's second movie in three months is more serious than Sisters was, but I found myself liking it more. One of the issues I had with Sisters
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Gods Of Egypt, Eddie The Eagle, Triple 9 Gods of Egypt - Everywhere See a bunch of mostly white dudes playing ancient Egyptian deities in this CGI-filled epic that I totally thought was a video game when I first saw the
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Witch, Race, IndieFest The Witch - Alamo Drafhouse and the AMC Theaters The Witch is a tough sell. While it has both the creepiest and most beautiful imagery I've seen in a horror movie in many
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Deadpool, Zoolander 2, How To Be Single Deadpool - Everywhere Your ability to enjoy Deadpool is directly predicated on how much you enjoy the entire Ryan Reynolds thing, by which I mean that whole smartass-with-the-shit-eating grin persona he's been working
