“‘Blow Out’ Remains Brian De Palma’s Politically Cynical Masterpiece”

Leave all your comments about “Blow Up” out of here, thanks. Continue reading →

“‘Bombshell’ Is An Oversanitized Mess — And A Missed Opportunity”

There are only so many ways that I, personally, can imagine screwing this movie up, and Jay Roach screws it up in all those ways plus others. Continue reading →

Review: Pitch Perfect 3, 2017, dir. Trish Sie

The Pitch Perfect series is, for the most part, delightful; it’s a cliché to say that the first movie in a trilogy is the best, but Pitch Perfect really is better than Pitch Perfect 2, which mostly entertains with more bumps in the road plus a handful of unnecessary detours. So I’m not surprised that Pitch Perfect 3 turned … Continue reading →

Review: The Accountant, 2016, dir. Gavin O’Connor

The Accountant is Pixar’s latest family heart-warmer, a comedy about an ant who keeps the books for his colony and – wait, no. Sorry. That’s wrong. The Accountant is a movie where Ben Affleck plays an accountant who is on the autism spectrum, whose clients are mostly murderers and scumbags, and who shoots people in the fucking … Continue reading →