Poll: Favorite Patrick Wilson Movie What movie of Patrick Wilson’s nearly 20-year career has been your favorite? 10 minutes ago The Best Movie Sequels of All Time Across the Spiderverse has quickly risen to becoming one of the greatest movie sequels of all time – how does it compare to other sequels? 19 minutes ago … Read more
Deadpool 3 actor Karan Soni says the new movie won’t feel different from the first two. The third movie in the Deadpool series starring Ryan Reynolds will be the first one set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The MCU has made exclusively PG-13 movies so far, while the Deadpool movies have been rated R for … Read more
“Biosphere” has a curious premise that’s briskly unpacked within the movie’s first half hour. [SOME ESSENTIAL SPOILERS FOLLOW] In that time, insecure Billy (Duplass) and overweening Ray (Brown) discover that they’re not only trapped in a biodome that is running out of food but also that one of the fish that they’re raising for their … Read more
Winter is after the Big Picture: how YouTube’s “recommended” algorithm changed the game, our world, and us. Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, is interviewed extensively, and her corporate-speak about the positive “connections” formed between “diverse” groups of people rings false, as does her reassurances of how hard YouTube works to make the community … Read more
Pollard relies heavily on archival footage and photos, smartly allowing a relatively small cadre of experts to tell the story of Negro League Baseball, which means it doesn’t get too dry. From the film’s beginning, Pollard employs a tone that could be called joyous. It’s a smart decision that frames “The League” as a story … Read more
Devine’s character, Owen Browning, is a bank manager, despite being so cloddish and lacking in judgment or impulse control that it’s hard to imagine him being trusted to take a bag of garbage to the curb. His fiancee Parker (Nina Dobrev), is a yoga instructor everyone in Owen’s family inexplicably thinks is a stripper. She’s … Read more
Making her feature debut, Adele Lim takes bold risks in her raunchy road trip comedy “Joy Ride.” The movie walks a fine line between exploring heartfelt questions about belonging and outrageous jokes played for shock value. It’s as if Lim and fellow co-writers Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao saw the antics in Malcolm D. Lee’s … Read more
“The Red Door” is the fifth, and supposedly final, “Insidious” movie. And, with the caveat that you can never trust a horror franchise to end when it says it will end, it does deliver a reasonably satisfying wrap-up to the story of the Lambert family. They’ve been absent from “Insidious” since 2013, when Blumhouse pivoted … Read more
Handsomely stark scenes are often reduced to three or four lines of dialogue, including the eureka moment of how Ballard gets involved in the process. A work buddy asks him how many children he’s saved, so Ballard changes his line of work. Mira Sorvino, as Ballard’s wife Katherine, plays a character who is credited at … Read more
Lionsgate has revealed the Corner Office trailer for its forthcoming workplace comedy movie, starring Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm and Community’s Danny Pudi. It is scheduled to premiere on August 4 in theaters and on digital and VOD. The video introduces Hamm’s Orson, a new employee who’s determined to climb up the corporate ladder. However, … Read more