Box office pundits spent a great deal of time wondering this week why Steven Spielberg’s The BFG tanked during its opening weekend at the box office. (For the record, it brought in $19 million aga...

Some films are half-baked from the start and never get around to fully developing what could be a worthy premise. Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Shallows certainly falls in that category as it leaves the...

As far as I know, there was no great demand for a sequel to “Independence Day” and what with the many financial successes in his past, I can’t imagine that its director Roland Emmerich is in n...

Without question, Lady Susan is a woman to be reckoned with.  Sly, coy, flirtatious, gorgeous, she’s a master manipulator, adept at playing the victim whenever it suits her; she has no probl...

His considerable talent wasted on Furious 7, director James Wan is back in familiar territory with The Conjuring 2,  an effective if overlong thriller that contains many of the elements that ha...

By its very nature, falling in love is a transformative act.  The newly besotted tends to look at life, themselves and others in a myriad of different ways when Cupid’s arrow finds its mark....

Having already brought in $103 million overseas, Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse hits the states with a full head of steam at the box office and, curiously, a myriad of middling reviews.  Wh...

Sometimes, an artist is so close to his or her subject that objectivity becomes a casualty.  Such is the case with Lorene Scafaria’s The Meddler.  While the film is meant to be a tr...