Cooties; Cat fights; Relapses; Double-crossing; French fries at gun point; An ill-advised proposal; Burning Books; And some very, very bad news… An entire female population in their underwear, a gum wrapper proposal, cat fights and hate sex in a condemned library are not nearly as much fun as they sound, in ‘Bed Bugs And Beyond.’...
That being said, Gomez-Rejon's commingling of cutesy and downbeat pensive drama makes for a rich emotional experience and one capable of bedazzling in least expected places. The players are all…
Most don’t realize that Dante’s Hell was more frozen-over than burning hot. It’s appropriate, for if this film were brought to judgment, its feigned premise – that bait-and-switch of the…
In which old friends return, people move on, plots are hatched and parties are planned, as Caputo’s “kinder, gentler regime” struggles to take hold. Mother’s Day can be one of the hardest, as well as most exciting, days of the year in a women’s penitentiary. Inmates with children get to see how much their kids...
In large part due to smarmy secondary characters the likes of Law, Statham and Bryne, Spy does slip in some low laughs, sometimes even at the hands of McCarthy. And…
I would say the bloom is off the rose but that honor went out the window in the second act of the first film. Everything since Shaye walked through the…
Deferential to the original, almost to the point of hitting too many of the same notes, Jurassic World definitely follows a formula that hems dangerously close to the 1993 cut.…
The end result has its mildly bemusing moments - especially when in the supremely self-deprecating hands of Kevin Dillon - but is ultimately an entirely unnecessary addition to canon whose…
As in year’s past, the time for the infamous SIFF capsule review has come. Though this year has been notable slower than last – in which I took in 40 films for SIFF’s 40th Anniversary – the slate of films has generally been stronger – likely due to my more selective palette this year. As...
Unfortunate though it may be, Aloha is brimming with the melodramatic tinder that stokes the flames of many critics' red pens. Case and point, a local critic all but pushed…