Watch ‘Game Night’ for laughs and hijinks
Like a blind person playing charades, “Game Night” had the odds stacked against it. It comes courtesy of a screenwriter who wrought “Herbie: Fully Loaded” and the two directors who…
Ryan Bordow is a lifelong art enthusiast whose biggest passions include writing movies and writing about movies. He studied both film production and media analysis at Arizona State University. Visit his personal website sittinginthecinema.com for more of his thoughts on film. When he’s not writing, he enjoys the study of theology and philosophy, and traveling the world whenever he can afford it.
Like a blind person playing charades, “Game Night” had the odds stacked against it. It comes courtesy of a screenwriter who wrought “Herbie: Fully Loaded” and the two directors who…
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Steven Spielberg shaped the landscape of filmmaking as it exists today, and then he stopped. Classics like “Jaws”, “Jurassic Park”, and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” originated the structure of…
My father has a story about the release of the original “Star Wars” in 1977. Purportedly, after watching the groundbreaking film for the first time, he and his friends immediately…
There are mediocre movies you shouldn’t pay to see, there are bad movies you shouldn’t watch for free, and then there’s “The Room”: a flagrant failure of a film so…
Pixar Animation, long upheld as the studio that could do no wrong, has had a bit of a slump lately. Some of its efforts in the past few years have…
Mildred Hayes lives in the small town of Ebbing, Missouri. Her daughter did too, until she was raped and set on fire while walking alone one night. The police failed…
Ah, “Justice League.” Expectations were working against you from the start. You’re the illegitimate spawn of two vastly different directors, the younger sibling of four films: three disappointments and one-star child born the same…
There are three camps of people that will see 2017’s “Murder on the Orient Express”: those familiar with Agatha Christie’s original novel, fans of the classic 1974 adaption with Albert Finney (and Lauren Bacall and Ingrid Bergman and…