In a year of reboots ranging from entertaining (“Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Jurassic World”) to dreadful (“Vacation,” “Terminator Genisys”), “Creed” may be the most surprising one yet.
Christopher Lawrence
Christopher Lawrence is the movie critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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For all the noise we make on New Year’s Eve, Las Vegas doesn’t have much in the way of Christmas traditions.
It isn’t quite as foolhardy as asking a teenage girl to lead a rebellion against a brutal police state. But it’s close.
One of the biggest drawbacks to adapting a series of books for the big screen, especially with the obligatory splitting of the final novel into two movies, is the lack of closure.
AMC abandoned its original moniker, American Movie Classics, long before it started churning out some of TV’s finest dramas.
Bored. Just bored. That’s the best way to describe sitting through “SPECTRE,” the butt-numbing extension of “Skyfall” that plods along ground so familiar, it’s easy to see how Daniel Craig could have grown tired of playing James Bond.
As a movie, “Diamonds Are Forever” is mediocre at best. Based on critics’ scores, Rotten Tomatoes ranks it as the 16th best of the 23 official James Bond movies leading up to Friday’s release of “SPECTRE.” (“Dr. No” finished first, “A View to a Kill” last.)
“Wicked City” is the next-to-last of the networks’ new fall shows to debut, and the final confirmation that this is, yet again, another underwhelming crop of series.
In case you’ve spent the past 24 hours holed up inside a Tauntaun, you’re well aware that tickets for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” go on sale tonight after the trailer debuts during halftime of “Monday Night Football.”
Bringing a production crew to a hospital to capture footage of a family member grieving just may be Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ most stomach-churning moment yet.
Children tearfully watch filmstrips about how their best chance to survive a nuclear attack is to “duck and cover.” James Donovan (Tom Hanks) looks on in horror as Berliners are gunned down trying to clamber over the newly constructed wall. At one point, shots are fired into his New York home.
Some of Las Vegas’s best chefs are once again stepping out of their kitchens and into food trucks for the second season of “Late Nite Chef Fight.”
If you were to lead a locations tour of Las Vegas’ custom car reality shows, you wouldn’t need to use a bus.
It’s a little-known fact of film criticism: Saturday morning screenings are almost universally awful.
Just in time for Halloween, Showtime is unleashing one of the creepiest, most depraved characters you’ll ever see on television: Warren Steed Jeffs.