The Palme d’Or honor captures the best of movies
Over the last decade or so, a lot of folks, myself included, have shifted their idea of what would be the ultimate honor in film.
For decades, winning...
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‘The Mitchells vs. The Machines’ Review: Delightful family film delivers quick-witted laughs
Originally titled Connected and slated to arrive in theaters last fall, the superb new animated comedy The Mitchells vs. the Machines is now available...
Tough-guy flicks help anemic box office numbers
With the movie theater industry doing everything it can to get things up and running again before summer hits, I figured it was time to see what a column...
‘Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse’ Review: Clancy adaptation a throwback to ’90s action films
Without Remorse (technically Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse) is the sixth movie based on a Clancy novel but the first to make Clancy’s other famous spy...
A week in the life of our ScreenTime writer
After writing last week’s ScreenTime column about the Steven Soderbergh Oscars, I had Sodey on my mind.
I skimmed his Wikipedia page in awe of what...
‘Mortal Kombat’ Review: Film based on video game takes itself too seriously
When the first Mortal Kombat movie came out in the late summer of 1995, it was amid a string of early attempts like Double Dragon and Street Fighter...
The weird ’21 Oscars with one big misstep
The Steven Soderbergh-produced 2021 Oscars are in the books and, welp, they sure were unique — unique to such a degree that the program resembled the...
‘Stowaway’ Review: Overacted, underdirected sci-fi tale a snoozer
In Ridley Scott’s The Martian, Matt Damon plays a brilliant astronaut who gets stranded on Mars. With the aid of a robust sense of humor and scientific...
Looking ahead at this weekend’s Oscars
Here we finally are, better late than never, The COVID-Era Oscars. This coming Sunday, April 25, the 93rd annual Academy Awards will air worldwide following...
‘Voyagers’ Review: Unconvincing acting mars intriguing sci-fi concept
Making an unceremonious journey to theaters this weekend, the new sci-fi thriller Voyagers opens with an ominous title card about how the Earth is finally...