When it comes to most films, the concept of a hero and a protagonist are one and the same, and so the two are assumed to be synonyms. The truth is that a protag...
Subversive in passages, Bad Moms is a fairly paint-by-numbers affair with all the beats that years of test audiences have told Hollywood they need to include, f...
Saying Zach Clark's Little Sister being called a comedy does a disservice to the film seems like a slight on the genre. I know. But I don't mean it that way. Wh...
Everything starts so innocently that you'd be hard-pressed to realize Ali Abbasi's Shelley is a horror film besides the score's dread-inducing soundscape rising...
A cursory spin of the works of Sharon Jones could leave one with the impression that these tracks were recorded in the golden era of soul in the late '60s and e...
Gleason is a decently effective sob-extraction mechanism, a nexus where sports fans and documentary enthusiasts alike can join to vent some ragged emotion. The ...
Normally predicated on mining compelling source material that worked the first time around in the hopes of drumming up an entirely new set of eyes, Hollywood's ...
From its beginning, the Bourne series has been defined by a minimalist approach to narrative. Beneath the jargon about multi-tentacled, global terrorist conspi...
Perhaps the ideal thriller in a Pokémon Go era where Facebook Live, Periscope, and augmented reality have proven to be game-changers, Nerve ups the stakes and t...
Dozens of zombie films come out every year, and yet every one of them is being dictated by a rigid moral logic. Characters are placed into categories of heroes...
