Christopher Lawrence is the movie critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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The trailers cut up the movie’s one scene of warfare (in which Moses and Ramses defeat the Hittites at the Battle of Kadesh), Ramses’ pursuit of the Hebrews and the parting of the Red Sea (portrayed with more tornadoes than ever before) to make the biblical tale look downright action-packed. It isn’t.
It certainly has its flaws, but compared to his previous cinematic efforts, the writer-director’s latest movie is practically his “Citizen Kane.”
As depicted in the film, the Nebraska Territory in 1855 was a terrible place for women. One tosses her dead children out the door like so much garbage. Another pitches her crying baby down the pit of an outhouse.
From “Walking Dead” survival kits, to “Real Housewives” panties, here’s a look at some of the more unusual — some would say unnecessary — gifts you can give those TV lovers on your list.
In “Property Brothers At Home,” HGTV stars Drew and Jonathan Scott are renovating their southwest valley home, giving it a two-bedroom casita, an infinity pool and the city’s first commercial-grade backyard water slide.
Her dirty dentist was one of the highlights of “Horrible Bosses.” But, like much of the sequel, her sexually voracious character feels lazier and cheaper in “Horrible Bosses 2.”
There’s a noticeable lack of action, but the bleak “Hunger Games” sequel is as every bit as good as could be expected, considering it’s only telling half a story.
Hollywood is avoiding the traditional holiday pileups this year by taking more of an advent calendar style approach to doling out its biggest movies.
“Whiplash” is the first Miles Teller movie I’ve seen that didn’t make me want to do the young actor bodily harm.
Writer-director Christopher Nolan’s latest offers an intriguing mix of old and new, blending a ’70s-style aesthetic with cutting-edge special effects.
The captivating “Birdman,” starring Michael Keaton as a past-his-prime Hollywood star launching a Broadway play, is structured as one long, continuous scene.
The next two months will unleash a torrent of high-profile movies, but writer-director Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” is guaranteed to be the biggest of them all. Literally.
If there’s one criticism of “St. Vincent,” the dark comedy in which a timid 12-year-old boy (Jaeden Lieberher) strikes up an odd friendship with the curmudgeonly misanthrope (Bill Murray) who lives next door, it’s that anyone who’s ever seen a movie has a pretty good idea where it’s going to end up.
In the animated “Mike Tyson Mysteries” (10:30 p.m. Monday, Adult Swim), the former champ travels the country in a van dubbed the Mystery Mobile and assists strangers with the help of his homeschooled Korean daughter, the ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry and a foul-mouthed, hard-drinkin’, hooker-lovin’ pigeon who used to be a man.
The carnage takes a break for a middle act that shows off the hearts of some of its characters — figuratively for a change.
