Review: ‘Fist Fight’ falls on its face in the first round
Do you know what it’s like to sit in a theater full of people watching a comedy and not hear any laughter? It’s unbearably awkward. Hearing joke after joke met…
Do you know what it’s like to sit in a theater full of people watching a comedy and not hear any laughter? It’s unbearably awkward. Hearing joke after joke met…
“A Cure for Wellness” is difficult to write about. It’s like cataloguing a horrific car crash: do you try to describe it with mere words or tell your friends to…
“John Wick: Chapter 2” is the “Citizen Kane” of action sequels. Yes. It is that extraordinary. It’s not perfect, but it does more to deepen and change the genre for…
“The LEGO Movie” in 2014 was a bona fide miracle. In the history of cinema, never had a movie so utterly unnecessary been so perfect. It was a flawless mix…
“The Comedian” is a movie about a washed up artist — played by Robert De Niro — desperately trying (and failing) to find footing in the public eye by doing…
The movies that people typically swarm to theaters to see are the ones that sound exciting from their description alone. An eclectic superhero team splitting up and fighting across the…
M. Night Shyamalan has become somewhat of a joke. The writer/director, once renowned for creating masterpieces of tension and twists like “The Sixth Sense” and “Unbreakable”, spent the last decade…
Last year, director/writer Peter Berg made “Deepwater Horizon”, a true-story action thriller that starred Mark Wahlberg saving numerous people from explosions. This year Berg made “Patriots Day”, a true-story action…
Trailers for “A Monster Calls” led me to believe that I was about to watch a standard kids’ movie with a nice visual flair. The ingredients were all there for…
Arizona State University alumnus Eric Gichner used his business finance degree to outline a career plan with his wife Jackie Gichner to start their own dirty martini business called Vitani.…
Pete’s Dragon, Disney’s latest live action re-imagining of an animated classic, begins with a scene that had me immediately fearing an onslaught of clichés. Pete is enjoying a drive through…
If Suicide Squad were bad, it’d be the final nail in the DC Extended Universe’s coffin. Man of Steel was mediocre at best. Batman v Superman was a trash fire…