Huppert adds class to stalker thriller 'Greta'
Tuesday, 26 March 2019, 09:21
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
Imagine you're a 20-something living in New York City and you spot a particularly nice and structured green leather handbag on the subway. Do you report it to the MTA? Ignore it and move on? Claim it...
A sweet swan song for 'How to Train Your Dragon'
Monday, 25 March 2019, 09:19
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
Born in the 3-D land rush, "How to Train Your Dragon" has never quite shrugged off the bland corporate sheen attached to it from the start. But almost a decade since taking flight in 2010, these...
'The Wedding Guest' is a quirky but thin thriller
Friday, 22 March 2019, 09:13
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
No one going to see "The Wedding Guest" should expect a rom-com. The always-likable Dev Patel does star in it as a hunky guy who travels to a wedding party but he's not been invited and he really...
Learning to love the rom-com in 'Isn't It Romantic'
Thursday, 21 March 2019, 09:11
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
Even when done well, the romantic comedy is easy to pick on. They're so earnest and full of clichés and unrealistic fairy tale standards. Intelligent women have been taught that there should be...
'High Flying Bird' is an exhilarating fast break
Wednesday, 20 March 2019, 09:09
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
Straight, "no chaser" is how NBA agent Ray Burke (Andre Holland) likes his news in "High Flying Bird," and the same could be said for the cinematic preferences of director Steven Soderbergh, whose...
'Never Look Away' is an absorbing, exhausting ride
Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 09:08
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
What to say about an Oscar-nominated film that's more than three hours long, apparently despised by the man whose life inspired it, and has been called both a masterpiece and a manipulation? Perhaps...
In 'Fighting With My Family,' WWE dreams turn real
Monday, 18 March 2019, 09:06
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
Even the most eccentric passions of working-class England — long a favored reservoir of feel-good underdog tales — have seldom featured as much spandex as "Fighting With My...
'Alita: Battle Angel' is big eyes and big effects
Friday, 15 March 2019, 10:25
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
Alita is just like a typical teenage girl. She loves chocolate, breaks curfew and crushes on a bad boy with floppy hair, a leather jacket and a motorcycle. But Alita isn't typical in other ways. For...
'Serenity' now? No thank you
Thursday, 14 March 2019, 10:24
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
The elevator pitch for Steven Knight's "Serenity" would be: "'Key Largo' meets 'Westworld.'" And it's every bit as ridiculous as that sounds. Seven decades after Humphrey Bogart indelibly steered...
Film on Breslin and Hamill shows perils of local journalism
Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 10:20
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
HBO's new film on newspaper columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill romanticizes an era in New York and journalism that feels like a long, long time ago. The fact that it's very recent history...