“Furious 7,” the newest model in the careening yet indestructible “Fast & Furious” franchise, is directed by a guy better known for corpses than cars.
Australian James W...
The combination of a feeble script, unnecessary music montages, unlikable characters and so-so animation leave “Home” a close encounter of the dull kind.
E.T. would use...
“Get Hard,” the prepping-for-prison would-be comedy from Will Ferrell and comedian-of-the-moment Kevin Hart, is about as funny as life imprisonment without the possibili...
“The Witch of Painted Sorrows” (Atria Books), by M.J. Rose
M.J. Rose writes compelling tales with a gothic flair, and her latest novel, “The Witch of Painted Sorrows,” i...
“Insurgent” doesn’t seriously diverge from the “Divergent/Hunger Games/Maze Runner” formula until its final act.
Up until then, this “Divergent” sequel is Young Adults S...
“Run All Night” is a first-person shooter thriller for the Grecian Formula generation.
Old men — cops and mobsters — sit in bars, drink their Scotch on the rocks and tal...
Wrongheaded in conception, eye-rolling in execution, “Chappie” is a childish blend of the cute robot goofiness of “Short Circuit” and the bloody-minded mayhem of “RoboCo...
If you’re going to do a movie sequel that doesn’t quite measure up to the original and seems rather hurriedly cobbled together, well, OK. Many filmmakers have done the s...
If the mark of a good con artist is that he or she makes you think you know exactly what’s going on — when of course you haven’t a clue — that’s also the mark of a good ...
LOS ANGELES — A sweaty cash grab that gives a bad name to sequels in which key talent has jumped ship, Steve Pink’s “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” leaps forward rather than ba...
