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I’m late to the dance in reviewing the wonderful new movie musical IN THE HEIGHTS. (Actually, it’s more like a block party.) Suffice it to say, I did catch it this past weekend on the big screen [...]

There is a fine line between macabre humor and kitsch in horror. Vincent Price managed to avoid crossing the line more often than not in his career. Eli Roth, not so much. THE CONJURING [...]

Any horror film that’s even halfway successful at the box office these days becomes a franchise, and 2018’s A QUIET PLACE is no exception. Its deftly told tale not only made plenty of bucks at [...]

The makers of the SAW franchise continue to forget what their property is about, failing to understand that what made the first and only sublime entry in the series so effective was dread, not [...]

Sometimes Billy Crystal’s projects have a problem: Billy Crystal. Despite his enormous talents, avid charity work, and legendary Oscar hosting, he’s earned a reputation over the years as a [...]

A successful assassin can’t shake the death he caused of an innocent bystander. His enigmatic boss may be playing both sides against the middle. And a host of potential enemies will challenge the [...]

The Oscars are so late this year, and so are my Oscar predictions. Despite being a critic and a movie fan, my track record in such matters is less than stellar. Still, I try to think with my gut [...]

  It seems strange that so many video games are not adapted as animated films for the big screen. They tend to all have an illustrated look to them, be it the ARKHAM or CALL OF DUTY [...]

There actually is a brilliant idea in the new movie VOYAGERS. Unfortunately, it’s a TV idea, not a feature film one. The premise of the story is that in the future, Earth becomes so uninhabitable [...]

The Oscar-nominated Live-Action Shorts this year couldn’t be more of the moment. In all but one, the plot revolves around law enforcement, specifically, the overstepping of those tasked with [...]