If you watched the trailer for “Keanu” — starring Jordan Peele and Keegan Michael Key of Comedy Central’s beloved series “Key & Peele” — and wondered “is this a real mov...
Family dysfunction takes on new meaning in “The Family Fang,” a film about a pair of performance artists for whom everything in life is part of the act, and the effects ...
The perfect Mother’s Day movie arrives this weekend, and no, it’s not necessarily the film with the same name as the holiday. Lorene Scafaria’s “The Meddler,” starring S...
How do you solve a problem like Kristen (Stewart)? If you’re the filmmakers of “The Huntsman: Winter’s War,” you write Snow White entirely out of the sequel to “Snow Whi...
In the annals of improbable things happening in the movie industry, the travails of a struggling hair salon on Chicago’s South Side may have been the oddest formula ever...
How does director Jon Favreau update Rudyard Kipling's classic story “The Jungle Book,” already a Disney animated favorite from 1967? He looks to “Planet Earth.” The ani...
“The Boss” is not just the title of Melissa McCarthy's latest but also the take-charge attitude she brings to the project. Her part allows the actress to stretch, turnin...
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...
“Miles Ahead,” an ambitious, experimental biopic about jazz legend Miles Davis, actually states its mission twice over the course of the movie.
Basically: “If you’re go...
Richard Linklater’s ’80s collegiate baseball film “Everybody Wants Some!!” can only be described in the same way you might talk about college jocks — attractive, dumb an...