10 NEW TO NETFLIX “The Accountant““Alone““The Autopsy of Jane Doe““Bodies Bodies Bodies““Four Daughters““Godzilla”“Pineapple Express““Step Brothers““To Kill a Tiger”“Wanderlust” 15 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “The Abyss” James Cameron‘s 1989 blockbuster has been one of the hardest films to find on physical media or streaming for over a generation now. Its long-delayed arrival …
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Paul Dano has done so much in a career that’s spanned two decades, and he’s just getting started. The star of “Little Miss Sunshine,” “There Will Be Blood,” “The Batman,” “The Fabelmans,” and so many more already appeared in Prime Video’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” this year and drops this week in Johan Renck’s “Spaceman.” In …
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10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Aquaman““The Babadook““Brawl in Cell Block 99““Dumb Money““The Florida Project““How to Train Your Dragon““John Wick““Jurassic Park““The Novice““Train to Busan“ 14 NEW TO BLU-RAY “The Apu Trilogy” (Criterion) There are a lot of titles that I love because Roger Ebert loved them first. One of his greatest gifts …
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It’s back! With more people on the ground due to a more restrictive online portion that starts next week (and doesn’t include most of the premieres), this year’s Sundance Film Festival already feels the most crowded and buzzy since 2020. Sundance took a hit from COVID, going virtual in 2021 …
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And here’s where things get tricky. The launch maps rule. Certainly more than the launch maps for the last two releases. They’re classics for a reason, and the biggest problem with the multiplayer offerings in recent “CoD” editions has been map design. So, yes, it’s all overly familiar and over-priced, …
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It’s been less than a year since the action of “Miles Morales,” and I’ll admit that the opening couple hours of “Spider-Man 2” are its weakest in that they are overstuffed with tutorials to re-learn all the complex mechanics for not one but two superheroes. While Peter (Yuri Lowenthal) and …
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Buy it here Special FeaturesShort FilmCarl’s Date – Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® Award winner Bob Peterson and produced by Kim Collins, this all-new short, “Carl’s Date,” finds Carl reluctantly agreeing to go on a date with a lady friend —but admittedly with no idea how …
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Instead of continuing directly after the acclaimed 2019 “Mortal Kombat 11,” the creators of this title revert numerically to “Mortal Kombat 1,” which technically makes this a reboot, although it contains many of the same mechanics as the last title and the excellent “Injustice 2,” also from developer NetherRealm Studios …
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One of the great joys of TIFF is being able to catch up with films that premiered at Cannes roughly four months earlier. It allows this staff to offer alternate takes on some of the biggest movies of the year, including the Palme d’Or-winning “Anatomy of a Fall.” We will …
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It’s been an unusual Toronto International Film Festival. Thanks to the dual strikes, gone are the star-studded red carpets, replaced by relatively quiet introductions and a general lack of fanfare. Sure, there are a few famous faces around town, but it’s not the traditional celebrity-scape that this festival has become. …
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10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Collateral““Coming to America”“The Departed““Despicable Me““The Expendables”“The Fast and the Furious““Ferris Bueller's Day Off““The Jerk““Lost in Translation“Paddington” 13 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “Asteroid City” Wes Anderson returned to Cannes this year with his best film since “Moonrise Kingdom.” His latest is a fascinating, moving examination of the entire …
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But back to the action/adventure stuff. Before he can put his retirement gift away, Indy is whisked off on an adventure with Helena Shaw (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), the daughter of Basil and goddaughter of Indy. It turns out that Basil became obsessed with the dial after their encounter with it a …
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