Aloha Comedy (?) where Bradley Cooper plays a military contractor and former soldier who returns to Hawaii for a secret new assignment, where he makes amends with his ex (Rachel McAdams) and finds new love. Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky) was one of the most promising filmmakers ...

For someone with a film blog who writes reviews and likes to think of himself as an authority on the current state of things in cinema, I had a shamefully huge, Marvel-sized hole in my knowledge. I had seen the first Iron Man and the first Captain America back in ...

Adult Beginners Indie comedy about a man who loses everything when his start-up tech company goes bust, then goes back to his hometown to stay with his sister and her family and start over. Nick Kroll (whom you may recognize as "it's that guy" from various TV and film comedies, ...

The Age of Adaline Fantasy romance starring Blake Lively (The CW's Gossip Girl) as a woman who never ages, who must confront her long-kept secrets when she finds love unexpectedly. So much preposterous science and so many incredible coincidences to accept... but so much to enjoy (really!) if you can ...

So many romantic comedies feature female protagonists who are professionally successful, intelligent, and educated, but whose entire self-worth is nevertheless determined by whether or not they have a boyfriend. We’ve been trained by years of movies starring Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock and Kate Hudson to think that a woman’s ...

We are living in a cinematic landscape of squeaky-clean, on-brand comic book franchises that tend to lean towards the conservative side of things in order to protect the image of the corporate brand. In the midst of all this carefully curated content, one major thing that we’ve been missing is ...

After the intense sadness that they wove throughout their last film, 2013’s great Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen switch gears into pure light-hearted silliness with their latest, Hail, Caesar! This isn’t the first time that the auteur brothers have made a broad all-star comedy to cleanse their palate ...

The past few years have been so generous in offering a number of really excellent science-fiction films. 2013’s Her raised so many questions about how human interaction has changed along with evolving technology, and examined the relationships and dependence we develop with and for our devices. 2014’s Under the Skin ...

So many adaptations have been done of Mark Twain’s seminal novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequels that Tom and his pal Huckleberry Finn have long since become two of American literature’s most famous characters of all time. In this way, Tom and Huck could be called the ...

Much has been said in recent months about electrifying co-star chemistry and magical screen pairings. These performances — by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in Carol, by Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay in Room, by Saoirse Ronan and Emory Cohen in Brooklyn, by Mya Taylor and Kitana Kiki Rodriguez in ...