With only a solitary passing mention of The Avengers, Doctor Strange is as stand-alone an adventure as we will get from Marvel -- prior to a mid-credits sequenc...
In the wake of Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's wonderful De Palma, a documentary concerning the life and career of director Brian De Palma, it's difficult to l...
It's appropriate that the act of illusion plays such a central role in Inferno, for the film itself spends a lot of time masquerading as though it's something l...
Oliver Stone. That’s the filmmaker who should have been asked to chronicle the career of Oasis, the hugely successful, ever-combustible, now-departed kings of B...
André Øvredal’s last feature, the monster mockumentary Trollhunter, was thrillingly irreverent -- a cruelly funny movie that turned Norwegian mythology into a r...
There are only so many iterations of the haunted house trope and yet they continue getting made. Sometimes we're lucky with James Wan's The Conjuring series del...
Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint." That’s what he dubbed "the ...
You know you are in trouble when the funniest part of a movie is Madea's discussion of her retirement account. (She calls it her “Ho-01K” account, because she c...
It's been a curious few weeks for adult fare at the multiplex. With girls on trains, autistic accountants and ex-military vigilantes, there's no shortage of mov...
One of Anton Yelchin’s final screen performances lifts the melancholic ode to one night’s lost passion in Porto, a messy, scattered drama that, for all it...
