There are two ways to watch the new film Pixels — 1) you recognize it as the atrociously written disaster that it is and allow it to infuriate you or 2) you give in to the super-fun concept and allow yourself to be thoroughly entertained (despite understanding that the film ...

By now, you already know if you’re a fan of the Minions, those yellow, capsule-like servants who work for Gru in the Despicable Me films. Even if you’ve never seen the films, you likely know who they are — Universal Pictures has been working overtime to market them this summer, ...

A paper town is a fictitious location printed on a map on purpose in order to identify potential copyright infringement. In the film Paper Towns, adapted from the novel by John Green (The Fault in Our Stars), Margo Roth Spiegelman (Cara Delevingne) turns this concept into a metaphor, explaining to ...

Hollywood is often nothing more than an assembly line that produces the same story again and again for mass audiences who are drawn to the comfort of familiarity. Invariably, any recent year’s top-grossing films will be composed mostly of sequels and comic-book adaptations. This year alone has already seen a ...

Amy Schumer is the new big thing in comedy these days, and it’s exciting to see her career explode so quickly. Her sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer recently completed its third season on Comedy Central and saw a number of breakthrough Emmy nominations. And this summer she is poised ...

Though none of his previous works have been capital-G Great Films, Tarsem Singh has nevertheless built a reputation as a filmmaker with a very recognizable style who makes visually magnificent films. Whether telling inspired original stories in The Cell and The Fall or reimagining more familiar narratives in Immortals and ...

The theatre is a place with its share of superstitions. Whether we’re talking about that long-accepted rule that wishing someone good luck is actually bad luck (and that telling someone to break a leg is actually good luck) or about many theatre practitioners’ devout refusal to utter the name Macbeth ...

When it comes to judging the merits of a road trip movie — and there are so many of these that it’s basically a legitimate sub-genre of cinema by this point — the most logical way to proceed is on a scale of Crossroads (dismal failure) to National Lampoon’s Vacation ...

Chappie Inferior mash-up of RoboCop and A.I. set in a dystopian Johannesburg where robots act as the police force. When a programmer illegally reprograms one of them to be sentient, the robot is "raised" by a couple of wannabe-gangsters (Ninja and Yolandi Visser from the South African band Die Antwoord, ...

Boy Meets Girl Sweet and genuinely affecting love story about a transgender girl in Kentucky that examines the interaction between gender identity and sexual orientation. Some narrative developments are predictable or cliché, but that doesn't make them any less satisfying. Great acting. Very important story to tell and topic to ...