When it comes to film franchises based on young-adult fiction, we have seen the supernatural trend (Harry Potter, Twilight) of the aughts gradually give way to the dystopian craze sweeping theatres today. The Hunger Games is obviously the genre standard-bearer with its enormous box office returns and great reviews (and ...

Three new films open in wide release this weekend, and it’s more of the same awful-looking comedies and middling genre fare that we tend to see in January. The first of these, and probably the one that will be most successful, is the comedy Dirty Grandpa. Starring Robert De Niro ...