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Ride Along 2 should be another good day at the box office for Ice Cube & Kevin Hart
Sometimes a sequel manages to match the energy of the movie that preceded it. Such is the case with Ride Along 2, the latest movie from Cube Vision, Universal Pictures and Will Packer Productions. When you find a formula that ...
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American Horror Story: Hotel ends on a surprising note
The most shocking moment of the eleventh episode of American Horror Story: Hotel was when the voice over guy said that the next episode was the season finale. What?!?! The last three seasons have all been 13 episodes long, but ...
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Bordertown continues its social timeliness but suffers in its story
It was a good thing Bordertown didn't open its season with the episode aired this past Sunday, "Borderwall."The premiere January 3rd ("The Engagement") was the correct story to introduce the series. Hands down, it surpassed just about everything the second ...
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David Bowie :: An appreciation
There were four words that had never crossed my mind that I would have to be writing, at least not for many, many years -- David Bowie has died.It still causes me much pain and confusion to even ponder the ...
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The Hateful Eight is precisely the violent, wordy brilliant mess you’re expecting
Quentin Tarantino is one my favorite directors, because he does it like nobody else. He has a kind of twisted genius combining pastiche, homage, and spectacle to make some of the best movies of the last two decades. My feeling ...
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The Revenant is a brutal tale of survival … and revenge
revenant
- noun
- a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.At a time in TV and movie entertainment when the landscape is ripe with zombies, there has been a sub-genre of storytelling involving folks who have been dead for ...
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How to have fun watching The Bachelor
One of the things I like to do at the beginning of a new season of The Bachelor is play a little guessing game. I call it "Who's Going Home Right Out Of The Gate."Now ... I understand Monday's premiere ...
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There’s more to FOX’s Bordertown than meets the eye
Sometimes, the mark of a good television show is its ability to sit there, be broadcast and let the controversy roll in.If you're on board that train of thinking, you'll be merrily rolling down the track because, in many ways, ...
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The Good Dinosaur is Pixar by the numbers, heartwarming but predictable
By this point it’s probably already known that Pixar had their first “failure” with this movie, at least financially. But was it a really a failure otherwise?The Good Dinosaur is the latest Pixar movie in a year where we’ve already ...
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Sisters is the female equivalent of Step Brothers, and it’s crudely hilarious
I’ve never had a sister, but I always wanted one when I was a little girl. You know, someone to have tea parties with and to share in the fun of class sleepovers. What I got instead were two much ...
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Brad and Janet cast on Fox’s Rocky Horror remake
From Fox press release:Actress and recording artist Victoria Justice (Victorious) and Ryan McCarten (Liv & Maddie, Heathers the Musical) have been cast as “Janet Weiss” and “Brad Majors” in THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, which is set to shoot this ...
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Boston :: Win Scenes of Anomalisa: A Film by Charlie Kaufman
HOTCHKA has partnered with Paramount Pictures and Rizzoli New York to offer readers in the Boston area a chance to win a copy of the new book Scenes of Anomalisa to tie in with the limited release of the new ...
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