Gravity: More Science, Less Hollywood

Sandra Bullock. Photo: Warner Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and the most famous person working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, was surprised the other day to…

Chicago: City of Scoundrels

Catherine Zeta-Jones. Photo: Miramax Premiere once named this as one of the 20 most overrated films of all time. My take is different: Chicago is the greatest screen musical of…

jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 

When 86-year-old Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) finally becomes a widower he's ready to go looking for some prime Black tail, but is suddenly saddled with his young grandkid (Jackson Nicoll).…

Lethal Weapon: Not Too Old for This Shit

Danny Glover and Mel Gibson. Photo: Warner I have happy memories from my life as a teenager in the early 1990s, in love with the great action movies of the…

The World’s End 

Ne'er-do-well Gary King (Simon Pegg) gathers his old friends for a pub crawl in their hometown of Newton Haven, little dreaming that they'll get wrapped up in a global battle……

Tootsie: Dressed to Kill

Sydney Pollack and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: Columbia In the late 1990s, I was studying English in college when one of our teachers organized a reading of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance…

Insidious: Chapter 2 

After the events of the first film, the Lamberts move into Lorraine's (Barbara Hershey) house for a while, but they're closer to danger than they can imagine. The same year…

Meet Me in St. Louis: Home Sweet Home

Judy Garland. Photo: MGM There was drama behind the scenes of Meet Me in St. Louis, one of the best-loved nostalgia pieces of the early 1940s. Judy Garland reportedly found…

Sanjuro 

A ronin (Toshiro Mifune) overhears a conversation among a group of samurai who suspect a public official of being involved with organized crime… but the ronin thinks they've got it…

The Conjuring 

In 1971, the Perron family move into an old house in Rhode Island and it doesn't take long for unexplainable things to happen there; eventually, they contact the Warrens (Patrick…