At times, Cruella is both brilliant and bland.

Boasts just a few great scenes and mostly plods along from one memorable moment to another like a zombie looking for its next meal.

Battle of the Sexes is a wholly different experience than you might expect.

La La Land is a far cry from the polished gem of Chazelle’s previous effort.

A master magician, determined to expose a medium, meets his match in Magic in the Moonlight. An obnoxious but successful 1920s magician, whose real name is Stanley (Colin Firth), is approached by his good friend and professional protégé, Howard (Simon McBurney), with an amazing story. Over the years, both men reveled in exposing unscrupulous “psychics” who […]

Marvel‘s venerable web-slinger returns to protect the city from Electro, the Green Goblin and OsCorp in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. I grew up with what’s called “Retro Spider-Man” — an animated series that originally ran from 1967 to 1970. Even with its occasionally outrageous plots and rather low-quality animation, every kid in the neighborhood was a huge […]

Dramatic climate change suddenly threatens the existence of a solitary caveman family in the new animated film from Dreamworks—The Croods. The main plot of The Croods is pretty typical in that it takes current day aspects of everyday life and pastes them onto a Paleolithic family. The father, Grug (voiced by Nicolas Cage), is obsessed […]