Some comedy formulas keep getting pulled out and re-dressed because they never truly stop serving the point of making a quick buck for studios. Among those comedy formulas is the father-vs.-fiance mainstay, a b...
Illumination Entertainment is still trailing the frequent quality of Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks Animation, but it's nonetheless managed some truly titanic commercial hits. The studio's earlier 2016 release, T...
Passengers is a challenging movie, not necessarily because of its subject matter, but because it's an original and bold tale with a bit of a questionable execution. Released over the holiday period by Sony Pict...
The rise of video game-adapted movies is continuing its ever-laborious crawl toward genuine greatness. This year, we got Ratchet & Clank and Warcraft taking baby steps toward elevating the breakage of the s...
When it comes to their original film catalogue, Netflix has mostly stayed away from larger and more ambitious genre offerings up to this point, at least beyond breakout movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - S...
Disney's acquisition of LucasFilm ultimately led to a stellar return for the Star Wars film franchise in last year's excellent Star Wars: The Force Awakens. With the direct follow-up to that movie still a year ...
Office Christmas Party is one of those movies that really wears its appeal on its sleeve. It gets everything pertinent across in its bland, unremarkable title, tossing an intricate cast within a simple story fo...
In their current quest to be more modern and culturally sensitive, Disney is once again turning to a lesser-known mythology for their latest animated fantasy-adventure movie. Moana is an adaptation of Pacific I...
Plenty of superb movies in recent years have scripts that originated on the Hollywood Black List, an annual rundown of unproduced screenplays that are seen as the most promising by pundits. It's a useful tool t...
The story of The Boy Who Lived may be concluded on the big screen at this point, but Warner Bros. seems to have found another way to continue digging into the rich lore of J.K. Rowling's wizarding world. It see...