• Blow the Man Down

    Capsule Reviews: March 2020 Digital Releases

    The Banker Biopic of Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) and Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson), two businessmen in the 1950s American South who strike it rich and buy a bank in Texas in order to help African American people get loans — which they can only accomplish by hiring Matt Steiner ...
  • Hail, Caesar!

    Hail, Caesar!

    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 ...
  • Deadpool

    Box Office Report: Three new releases, but none can unseat the massive ‘Deadpool’

    It was a familiar-looking weekend at the movies, with none of the new releases managing to out-perform the New Year’s top two hits. Deadpool hung on to its top slot for a second week, with a big gross that most movies can’t even achieve in their first weekends. This is ...
  • Kung Fu Panda 3

    Box Office Report: ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ remains on top Super Bowl weekend

    Not much to write about this week — people must have stayed home in a Super Bowl fever, since all three new releases flopped. Kung Fu Panda 3 topped the chart for the second week in a row, and it’ll likely pass Ride Along 2 in a week or so ...
  • Hail, Caesar!

    What’s New: Weekend of February 5

    The first weekend of February brings with it three new wide releases, and it’s quite the eclectic bunch. There’s a goofy comedy from high-brow iconic auteur brothers, a sappy Nicholas Sparks adaptation, and, er, a British costume drama horror comedy. That last one is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, based ...
  • No Escape

    No Escape

    There are films that you engage with on an intellectual level. And then there are films like No Escape that you experience with the rest of your body. The new film about an American family trying to escape to safety after a military coup breaks out in Southeast Asia is ...
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    As the glut of summer sequels begin screening this month, a sense of dread inevitably falls upon the high-minded adult filmgoer. Not to say that an Iron Man or a Star Trek or a Hangover doesn’t have its pleasures, but these films do serve as a reminder that we’re in ...