The search continues for a suitable showcase for the awesome talents of Melissa McCarthy outside of films directed by Paul Feig. The latest vehicle to give it a try, "The Boss," has a promising...

Few actors, male or female, are better at portraying an innate sense of mystery than the great French actress Isabelle Huppert. Her face seems to hold dozens of expressions all at once. You get the...

What if a young man who just lost his young wife in a car accident experienced none of the stages of grief? What if he felt nothing? What if he, instead, started writing letters to a vending machine...

In "Allegiant," the latest installment of "The Divergent Series" (three out of four), dystopian Chicago might be in disarray, but it's also become as dull as our heroine Tris' shapeless, grey...

Ever been to a wedding where you don't know anyone very well? It's pretty deadly, no matter how good the food or the band might be. Everyone's laughing really hard at jokes you don't find funny, or...

The final scene of "I Saw the Light," a biopic about folk legend Hank Williams, shows a packed theater on New Year's Day in 1953. They're waiting for Hank to come out, but instead get a plainly...

The rise of the so-called "faith-based film" - typically low-budget films that are almost uniformly evangelical - has occurred largely in a bubble of its own like a sheltering harbor for Christian...

Ben Affleck hopes the Batman fans who were skeptical of him playing the caped crusader in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" realize how seriously he took the role. "The most difficult thing...

For some filmgoers, hearing a movie described as "faith-based" makes it a must-see. But just as many others find the term a turn-off. To reach audiences beyond the Christian church-goers that...

The "they did WHAT" anticipatory glee is generally bound to be a letdown - especially when the big joke is someone getting a disease. In the off-chance that you've managed to stay blissfully unaware...