The most believable element in "Pixels" is that alien video-game creatures could attack our planet. The core concept is clever - space aliens misunderstand a recording of old video-games as a...

Woody Allen has always been interested in man's search for meaning in life - a search he clearly sees as futile. Who can forget the young woman in "Play it Again, Sam," staring at a Jackson Pollock...

Women can be jerks, too. Everyone knows that. And yet in the movies, the female schmuck is generally relegated to side characters. She's a friend. She's a villain. She's never the...

"Ted 2" asks a question that we never needed, or particularly wanted, to know the answer to: Is Ted, the magical, foul-mouthed, pot-smoking teddy bear, a person in the eyes of the law? While it's...

The Malta Film Commission said this morning that the filming in Malta of a highly anticipated new feature film based on the true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to win the...

If ever there was a sworn devotee - a chanting, face-painted worshipper - of the Big, it is Marvel. So the prospect that Ant-Man, the miniscule Mighty Mouse of Marvel's stable of powerhouses,...

Thirty-one years and counting, and the Terminators keep rolling off the assembly line like new iPhones, upgraded with shape-shifting abilities, rebooted Sarah Conner assassination levels and, one...

Sidekicks rarely shine when thrust into the spotlight, but what about a few hundred of them? The Minions, having been the best part of the two previous "Despicable Me" movies, have swarmed the...

Donut Time doesn't look like much from the outside, but for "Tangerine" director Sean Baker, it was everything. With bright yellow, bubble letters spelling out the humdrum name on two humdrum,...

There's an early scene in "Magic Mike XXL" that hints at what this much ballyhooed sequel woulda, coulda, shoulda been. Mike Lane, played by the well nigh irresistible Channing Tatum, is alone in...