Box Office: Happy Death Day to ‘Alita: Battle Angel’
The North American box office had a remarkably quiet few days, producing the lowest grossing President’s Day weekend in fifteen years. It wasn’t through lack of trying either, with three […]
Tag Archives: Movies
Review: ‘Happy Death Day 2U’
Happy Death Day 2U must be given credit for how it meaningfully develops on the premise of its predecessor. Many slasher sequels settle for being an inferior rehash of the events […]
Review: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
Barry Jenkins’ third feature-length directing effort is one-part harrowing crime drama and one-part sugar-coated romance. If those two genres don’t sound like a natural mix, that’s because they’re not. As […]
Box Office: ‘Lego Movie 2’ Underwhelms, Liam Neeson Survives
Despite consistently positive reviews from critics, the Lego Movie franchise has faced a series of diminishing returns since it debuted back in 2014. That trend continued over the weekend as The Lego […]
Review: ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’
For all the crap that Netflix churns out on a weekly basis, Velvet Buzzsaw is a triumphant reminder that when the streaming service delivers, it really delivers. Writer-director Dan Gilroy reunites with […]
Box Office: January 2019 Winners and Losers
As is often the case with January, it was a relatively slow month at the North American box office. Long regarded as a dumping ground for movies that studios had […]
Review: ‘Glass’
Glass isn’t terrible. That in itself is a small miracle. Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan went from Oscar nominee to punchline in a remarkably short space of time, largely due to his […]
