It’s here! It’s here! After a long summer where good movies were awfully hard to come by most of the time, the fall movie season finally begins this weekend, as audiences get their first look at some of this year’s prestige films. First up is the long-awaited Black Mass, from ...

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 ...

American Sniper I'm torn on this one. My first instinct was to grade this slightly higher for what is a gripping, well-acted war movie that explores the toll relentless killing takes on a soldier. However, the politics of this thing make me uneasy. That the film offers an overly simplified, ...

Bad Words Not funny enough to redeem its detestable lead character nor to justify its preposterous premise, coming across instead as just plain offensive. But I did love the adorable little boy. Grade: D+ Divergent Does a fairly interesting job of world-building... but script is so predictable and supporting characters ...