I give Red Sparrow the benefit of the doubt that it wanted to portray the dehumanization of women in an socially responsible way. They failed, but they couldn’t have been this off base on purpose. After a graphically catastrophic ballet injury, Dominika (Jennifer Lawrence)’s uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts) suggests another line of work. He sends
Warner Bros. Pictures have released the official poster and trailer to their forthcoming IMAX documentary Pandas. The movie follows the scientists working at Chengdu Panda Base in China, where the captive breeding program is preparing cubs for life in the wild. One researcher is trying out a new technique that was first used for a
Game Night will be a fun night out for grown-up couples. It’s an all star comedy broken up into couples: Jason Batemen and Rachel McAdams, Kylie Bunbury and Lamorne Morris and Billy Magnussen with Sharon Horgan. It’s comedy gold when the couples go over to Brooks (Kyle Chandler)’s house for a murder mystery evening, not
Game Night combines the petty hilarity of competitive couples with the absurdity of immersive mystery theater. Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star as a married couple whose host weekly game nights. Max (Bateman) and Annie (McAdams) agree to let Max’s brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler) host one night. Brooks plans a murder mystery evening, only some
Aardman Animations, the studio behind Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run, tackles cavemen in an appropriately British manner. The cavemen of Early Man play soccer, and they even call it by the correct British name football. “That’s what we call it, that’s all,” Early Man director Nick Park said. “Actually, we do call it soccer
Daniel Kaluuya is nominated for a Academy Award for his role in Get Out. Before the Oscars are announced on March 4, he’ll be on movie screens again in Black Panther. (Read our review of Black Panther.) Black Panther stars Chadwick Boseman as the title hero. Kaluuya plays W’Kabi, head of security for the Border
Often when celebrities provide the voices for animated characters, they sound exactly like their famous selves. Even Shrek is reminiscent of Mike Myers’ famous Scottish characters. Tom Hiddleston and Eddie Redmayne don’t sound anything like themselves in Early Man. The animated film from the creators of Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run, Early Man stars
Black Panther was the first black comic book superhero. Now he’s finally getting his own movie (read our review) after Chadwick Boseman portrayed him in Captain America: Civil War. King T’Challa (Boseman) is from the fictional African country of Wakanda. So when he speaks, Boseman wanted him to have an African accent. “When you’re trained
Fans of the glory days of National Lampoon and Saturday Night Live can relive the landmark ‘70s comedies in Netflix’s new movie A Futile and Stupid Gesture. Tom Lennon plays Michael O’Donoghue, a National Lampoon writer who was one of the original SNL cast members. Lennon performed the famous Wolverines sketch, in which John Belushi
The Netflix film A Futile and Stupid Gesture tells the story of National Lampoon founder Doug Kenney (Will Forte). When he is at Harvard with Henry Beard (Domhnall Gleeson), they start a food fight. It’s easy to observe the food fight is a motif that would inspire the later National Lampoon film Animal House. The