Loud, incredibly manipulative, and strictly for people who love public meltdowns. Stephen Daldry directs Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel about a precocious…
Preview Coming to video and streaming services this week is “Simon Birch,” a 1998 tearjerker about a tiny kid in 1960s Maine who believes God made him small for a…
Want to ruin your whole weekend in under two hours? Ben Dover reviews Requiem for a Dream! If you enjoy sitting in a dark room while a giant TV screams…
Two hours of teenagers getting blisters. It is the best thing I have seen all year. Lionsgate’s adaptation of a story Stephen King wrote decades ago under a different name.…
Put down the smartphone, stop crying about your feelings, and watch a real man fight on a train in a cold war thriller of espionage and danger. British Intelligence is…
Director Ron Howard delivers with a story set in the bleak days of the Great Depression, focusing on a man who lost his shirt before finding his fists. This film…
Three hours of guys in skirts beating each other up, and honestly, it’s better than whatever is on TV right now. Directed by and starring Hollywood heavyweight Mel Gibson, this…
Hold onto your hats because we are diving into a three hour marathon of people crying and screaming in California. This flick tries to tie together a dozen different stories…
It’s the only movie where the guy in solitary confinement has a better social life and more gadgets than my grandson, and I still can’t figure out which one of…
Lock your doors and hide your olive oil, because the Corleones are back. Director Francis Ford Coppola has followed up his 1972 hit with a movie that dares to ask…
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