LOS ANGELES — Luc Besson’s “Lucy” proved mind can overpower muscle, topping a remake of “Hercules” by director Brett Ratner at the box office on the weekend.
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So let's start with the enticing premise of Luc Besson's “Lucy,” starring Scarlett Johansson: Human beings only use 10 percent of their brain capacity. Imagine what it w...
It was a bra-less age, when men wore skirts of leather, planted their feet and commenced to speechifying. About heroic deeds, which they made up, or at least exaggerated...
The high-concept comedies spawned by “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” need to start using birth control.
Judd Apatow’s landmark film rightfully ushered in a new era in comedy, ...
The clever conceit behind James DeMonaco’s 2013 sleeper hit “The Purge” was not that American society had resolved its crime/ inequality/ population problems with an ann...
Digital characters have by now long populated our movies like unwanted house guests. Some of these CGI inventions, like Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings,” have been plea...
Meg Gardiner’s latest thriller, “Phantom Instinct,” begins with a shootout at the club where Harper Flynn works. Harper’s boyfriend is killed, a police officer is severe...
“Earth to Echo” would love to be the “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” for the 21st century. But the new movie is to “E.T.” what Reese’s Pieces are to lumps of sugar. They sh...
Meet Tammy. Boy, is she a mess. Angry, profane and aggressive, then suddenly shy and sweet. Sometimes she’s funny, sometimes totally not. She can’t figure out what she w...
There’s only one thing anyone really needs to know about “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” Michael Bay’s fourth exercise in robot-on-robot violence and aggressive produ...
