BUSTER KEATON: THE COMPLETE SHORT FILMS (1917-1923)
[usr 5.0] Eureka Entertainment’s ‘Masters of Cinema’ release of Buster Keaton’s short films is important because Buster Keaton is important. To borrow from Orson...
ZOOTROPOLIS (2016)
[usr 4.5] Even if you disregard the relatively consistent quality of its Pixar co-productions, Disney itself has been on a hot streak with animated...
PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES (2016)
[usr 3.0] Based both on Jane Austen’s classic Pride & Prejudice and Seth Grahame-Smith’s parody novel of the same name—adding re-animated corpses into the equation—Pride...
DAD’S ARMY (2016)
[usr 2.0] Among the fine tradition of classic British sitcoms, few stand as revered—or, indeed, as British—as Dad’s Army. Set during World War II,...
HOME ALONE • HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (1990/92)
To celebrate Christmas Day tomorrow, below are two retrospective reviews of the beloved Home Alone films from the early-1990s, directed by Chris Columbus, written by John...
SPY (2015)
[usr 3.0] When she was a kid, Susan Cooper’s (Melissa McCarthy) mother used to leave a note in her lunchbox each day that read:...
AMERICAN ULTRA (2015)
[usr 3.5] Weird movies deserve to be celebrated, and American Ultra is just about the weirdest movie to arrive in cinemas in recent times....
PIXELS (2015)
[usr 1.0] Laziness is how we get films like Pixels. The desperately sad lack of commitment on display here is astounding, as Adam Sandler...
INSIDE OUT (2015)
[usr 5] It’s hard to imagine there’ll be a film this year as inventive and audacious as Pixar’s newest offering Inside Out. That might...
CLUELESS (1995)
[usr 4.0] If you were a teenager in the 1990s, there’s a big possibility you still use lines from Clueless in your everyday life....
ANT-MAN (2015)
[usr 4.0] Ant-Man, the newest film in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a little rougher around the edges than some of the studio’s recent...
MINIONS (2015)
[usr 2.5] The question Minions needed to answer was whether the cute Despicable Me critters are compelling and amusing enough to carry their own film. It’s...