We’ve seen plenty of spy thrillers and countless stoner comedies, but have we ever seen a stoner spy movie? That’s the conceit of the new film American Ultra anyway, and it’s a mish-mash that takes the best qualities of each genre and becomes something new that’s actually really fun. A ...

Guy Ritchie has always been, if anything, a very stylish director. He launched his career with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, two very idiosyncratic films that wielded their surprising lowlife vulgarity as a kind of cinematic street art; these early films established Ritchie as an auteur with ...

Sherlock Holmes is without a doubt a character that filmgoers are more than a little familiar with. Beyond the classic stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, this is a brand that has been adapted for screen again and again — and, with the BBC series starring Benedict Cumberbatch, the CBS series ...

Rap group N.W.A were together for only a few years, but their legacy as hip hop pioneers remains unrivaled, launching gangsta rap into the mainstream and birthing the careers of hip hop mogul Dr. Dre and actor/producer Ice Cube. And now they’re the recipients of their very own big Hollywood ...

The 2012 film Sinister introduced the Bughuul, a freaky boogeyman who feasts on young children, inciting them to murder their families while filming themselves doing the deed. In the film, Ethan Hawke played a successful true-crime writer who moved his family into a house that was the scene of one ...

There was no good reason to make the new Fantastic Four film. The first franchise, which starred Chris Evans and Jessica Alba, launched ten years ago — but quickly tanked after only the second film, due to disappointing box office and poor reviews. Now, eight years later, we have a ...

When a movie star decides to try his or her hand at directing, the results are not always a rousing success. For every Ben Affleck or Clint Eastwood or Robert Redford or Sarah Polley, there’s a Jason Bateman (whose Bad Words last year was terrible) or Ryan Gosling (this spring’s ...

Meryl Streep, always an acclaimed and chameleon-like actress, took on an unlikely new identity back in 2006 — summer blockbuster comedy star. That was the year when The Devil Wears Prada became a massive hit at the box office, opening opposite Superman Returns and sneakily earning over $326 million worldwide. ...

When we saw them last nearly 20 years ago, the Griswolds were getting themselves into one predicament after another during their trip to Las Vegas. But in the new film Vacation, time has passed, the kids have grown up, and young Rusty is now an airline pilot with a family ...

The summer is a time when movie theatres are filled with brainless fluff — from superhero blockbusters to big-budget sequels, the season is all about appealing to the masses and raking in the millions. Visual spectacle and merchandising are the goals, and if characters are underwritten or the storytelling is ...