Depending on whom you ask, Netflix is either the best friend you could have on a weekend or a reckless conglomerate trying to seduce your children into becoming suicidal anorexics.
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The clunkily scripted film plays like a public service announcement reminding moviegoers that Elliott is an underappreciated Hollywood institution.
Of all the movies flooding the multiplexes this summer, none will ruffle your petticoat quite like writer-director Sofia Coppola’s atmospheric thriller “The Beguiled.”
There are simply too many ideas in this unnecessary sequel, none of which is really explored, for any of them to resonate.
You know the feeling when you leave a great movie and you can’t stop thinking about that one outstanding scene? At least half of “Baby Driver” is made up of those scenes, woven together by one of the finest soundtracks ever assembled.
It’s summer, and once again ABC is partying like it’s 1979. A low-rent 1979 at that.
It was, without question, the universe’s single greatest concentration of hairspray and spandex — with the possible exception of David Lee Roth’s tour bus. Beginning Friday, it’s being immortalized in the Netflix comedy “GLOW.”
Twenty years ago, Troma, the makers of “The Toxic Avenger” series, launched a screenwriting contest where each week, fans would submit the next two pages of a script, taking the story in any direction they chose.
The moral so far this summer movie season? If you get dumped before an exotic vacation, stay home. Lose the deposit. Eat the whole cost if you must.
The best way to see “Cars 3” is through 3-D glasses. At times, the animation is so remarkable as to appear lifelike.
Like his music, the late hip-hop icon’s movie roles were raw and as hard as the streets.
As DEA agent Hank Schrader, Dean Norris had one of the least flashy roles on “Breaking Bad.” He’s more than making up for that on “Claws.”
The Dark Universe. The name doesn’t exactly capture the imagination, does it?
Found-footage movies have been a staple of horror cinema for years. But this psychological thriller feels like the start of a new genre: the lost-footage movie.