[Review] A Hologram For The King
Even while it was in production, Tom Tykwer’s A Hologram for the King fostered a dual atmosphere of intrigue and questionability. After all, it was based off a ...
Nathan Bartlebaugh
[Review] Elvis & Nixon
It is the most requested image in the National Archives, likely because of the tantalizing possibility and cheerful incongruity it summons. Elvis ‘The King’ Pre...
[Review] Sisters
If you're a studio planning a bit of counterprogramming for the juggernaut that is Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a raunchy party comedy with Tina Fey and Amy Po...
[Review] The Lady in the Van
Let’s hear it again for Dame Maggie Smith. Although she’s captured audience attention playing all manner of fussy upper-crust elitists, including Downton Abbey’...
[Review] Victor Frankenstein
It’s taken a whole laboratory of mad scientists to conceive Victor Frankenstein, the latest exploitation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, but the resulting schi...
[Review] The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
The long road to rebellion finds a surprisingly satisfying close in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, that rare blockbuster that finds a compelling middle ...
[Review] The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The freewheeling, frothy tone of Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. fits in perfectly with what has, so far, been a year full of light-as-air spy films. Jame...
[Review] Pixels
Once relegated as oddball background targets and the small cult voice of pop culture, the nerds finally have their day, and it’s lasted nearly fifteen years now...
[Review] Insidious: Chapter 3
The blaring, nerve-jangling violin jamboree that accompanies the assaulting opening titles of Insidious: Chapter 3 tells you all you really need to know. Escala...
[Review] When Marnie Was There
If Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s When Marnie Was There does turn out to be the last Studio Ghibli theatrical film, then the animation powerhouse will be going out on a...
