Inferno (2016)
The third film in the Dan Brown adaptation series that already includes The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons sees Tom Hanks (Sully, A Hologram for the King) return to play main Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who we...
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How to Be Single (2016)
Dakota Johnson (Black Mass, Fifty Shades of Grey) gets the lead role as Alice, who decides that she and her long-term college boyfriend Josh (Braun, Poltergeist) should break up for a while in order to experience what...
The Big Short (2015)
Absurdist slapstick comedy director Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights) comes into his own with The Big Short, a semi-comedic adaptation of the Michael Lewis non-fiction novel about the build-up to the calamitous housing market crash...
The Revenant (2015)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning film Birdman sees him go for a Western adventure of the most potent variety in The Revenant, a grueling tale of bloody revenge set in the wilderness of (presumably) the...
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Based on the historical novel of the same name by Nathaniel Philbrick, published in the year 2000, In the Heart of the Sea relates the story of a New England whaling ship known as the “Essex”,...
Room (2015)
Room is the kind of movie that makes me wish I had never seen the trailer, as I feel there are entirely too many key story moments revealed within it that lessen a good deal...
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
The buzz of 2015’s Sundance Film Festival where it would win both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, and for good reason, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl emerges as one of the...
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Fifty Shades of Grey adapts E.L. James’s massively popular book, only truly notably significant because it brought about BDSM subject matter into the mainstream. With everything depicted already having been filmed in pornography that’s not...
The Boxtrolls (2014)
Alan Snow’s 2005 illustrated novel, “Here Be Monsters!”, provides the basis for this loose-hanging adaptation, set in the Victorian-era cobblestone city of Cheesebridge, where a community of cardboard box-wearing trolls lives underground. The peace-loving...
John Dies at the End (2012)
After a nearly 10-year hiatus from feature films, Don Coscarelli, the director behind such cult B-movies as The Beastmaster, Phantasm, and Bubba Ho-Tep, helms this intentionally trippy horror comedy that is bound to become a cult classic...