You buy a ticket for a movie like “Into the Storm” — aka, “Twister 2: Let’s Twist Again, Like We Did in the Summer of ’96” — for the tornadoes. And they, at least, do not disappoint.
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Here’s a look at this week’s new movies, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Into the Storm,” “Step Up All In,” “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” “Boyhood,” “Deepsea Challenge 3D” and “I Origins”:
I took 164 minutes out of a recent vacation and dropped $32.54 to see “Boyhood.” It was worth every second. And every penny.
After each episode of the new body-painting competition series produced and judged by Las Vegan Robin Slonina, you can log on to YouTube to see “Skin Wars: The Naked Truth with Kandee Johnson.”
The trailer for “Guardians of the Galaxy” debuted in February, and its peculiar tone, coupled with its liberal use of Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling,” made it the one summer blockbuster I was verifiably tingly to see.
Each week on “Skin Wars” (9 p.m. Wednesday, GSN), one contestant will see all of his hard work go down the drain. Literally.
An ordinary young woman is given extraordinary powers when she ingests too much of a designer drug. It sounds like something Stan Lee and John Belushi might have concocted. Unfortunately, the reality is twice as nutty and roughly half as entertaining.
“Sharknado 2: The Second One” (9 p.m. Wednesday, Syfy) really is that much better in a bad way (or that much worse in a good way, depending on your perspective) than the original.
Here’s a look at this week’s new movies, “Hercules,” “Lucy,” “And So It Goes,” “A Most Wanted Man,” “Wish I Was Here,” “The Fluffy Movie” and “Le Chef”:
Think of it as the inaugural Feathered-Hair Film Festival. Three of the most awesome movies of the 1980s — “The Goonies,” “The Breakfast Club” and “The Karate Kid” — are playing throughout the valley this weekend.
During the annual 12-hour nightmare known as The Purge, virtually every crime known to man is legal.
Who brings an 8-year-old to see a movie called “Sex Tape”? What, did the guy working the door at The Spearmint Rhino not accept the little fella’s fake ID?
Here’s a look at this week’s new movies, “Sex Tape,” “Planes: Fire and Rescue,” “The Purge Anarchy” and “Persecuted”:
The History channel series set at Count’s Kustoms is back with a batch of new episodes.
Unlike most every other series about vampires, there’s absolutely nothing sexy about the bloodsuckers of Sunday’s new drama from Guillermo del Toro and “Lost’s” Carlton Cuse.