Creature feature that has a touch of blarney
Here's an old-fashioned "creature feature" in the mold of "The Thing," "Critters" and "Gremlin," with a little something extra. Yes, this time the beast comes ashore in an island town...
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A long life together fades into flaring frustration
As depictions of the elderly and the effects of Alzheimer's go, the gentle Canadian drama "Still Mine" is a lot closer to "The Notebook" than last year's bleak, Oscar-nominated French...
Creature feature that has a touch of blarney
Here's an old-fashioned "creature feature" in the mold of "The Thing," "Critters" and "Gremlin," with a little something extra. Yes, this time the beast comes ashore in an island town...
‘Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain’: A concert film that tries too hard ★ 1/2
In the timeline of the standard stand-up comic's career, Kevin Hart has surged past "young, angry and hungry," seems to be avoiding Dave Chappelle/Andy Kaufman burnout and is settling just...
‘White House Down’: Over-the-top with plenty of dumb fun ★★
If you see just one terrorists-take-over-the-White House thriller this year, make it "White House Down." Even if you saw the dour and bloody "Olympus Has Fallen," which has a lot...
‘The Purge’: Morality tale binges on violence and plot lapses ★ 1/2
James DeMonaco's "The Purge" is a bloody-minded, heavy-handed satire of life within these violent United States. It's a horror film with the occasional visceral thrill — the fear of being...
‘Violet and Daisy’ sugarcoats a pair of young killers for hire ★★ 1/2
"Violet & Daisy" plays like a live-action version of a Japanese manga comic. Lurid and bloody, it has elaborate gunplay and kinky-kitschy, lollipop-sucking schoolgirls working as assassins to pay for...
‘The Purge’: Morality tale binges on violence and plot lapses ★ 1/2
James DeMonaco's "The Purge" is a bloody-minded, heavy-handed satire of life within these violent United States. It's a horror film with the occasional visceral thrill — the fear of being...
‘Violet and Daisy’ sugarcoats a pair of young killers for hire ★★ 1/2
"Violet & Daisy" plays like a live-action version of a Japanese manga comic. Lurid and bloody, it has elaborate gunplay and kinky-kitschy, lollipop-sucking schoolgirls working as assassins to pay for...
‘Violet and Daisy’ sugarcoats a pair of young killers for hire ★★ 1/2
"Violet & Daisy" plays like a live-action version of a Japanese manga comic. Lurid and bloody, it has elaborate gunplay and kinky-kitschy, lollipop-sucking schoolgirls working as assassins to pay for...