‘Point Break’ review: Story is an afterthought in needless remake
It takes a very special director to make scenes of sky-diving, free climbing, big-wave surfing and BASE jumping something to yawn at. Yet Ericson Core must be that kind of...
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All the lingering questions that remain after watching ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ (Spoilers)
First thing's first: This is for people who have seen "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," which means spoilers. If you don't want to read spoilers, then you need to stop...
Hollywood’s brightest stars headlined the year’s biggest flops
Here's an easy one: What do George Clooney, Johnny Depp, Reese Witherspoon, Adam Sandler, Mila Kunis, Hugh Jackman and Bradley Cooper have in common? They're some of the highest-paid hotshots...
Angelina Jolie has crafted a subdued persona. Her movies are duller, too
The current incarnation of Angelina Jolie is so elegant, so businesslike and so entirely beyond reproach that it's easy to forget about the unruly version of her before the big...
Bieber vs. Selena: A guide to today’s pop song love feuds
Using art to put an ex on blast is nothing new. Carly Simon sang "You're So Vain" to someone long before Justin Timberlake tiptoed around the house of a Britney...
Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein never had groupies and once fled from an orgy
There are many sides to Carrie Brownstein, but the most famous two are: the one who shreds onstage with Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss as part of the punk rock...
‘Black Mass’ is a gritty, realistic drama – so why is Johnny Depp’s makeup so fake?
Would you be able to pick James "Whitey" Bulger out of a line-up? Some of you may vaguely remember his face from the FBI "Wanted" posters when the gangster was...
‘Pawn Sacrifice’ review: Chess champ vs. himself
Our first glimpse of Bobby Fischer in "Pawn Sacrifice" is not the chess grandmaster's proudest moment. The year is 1972, when Fischer took on Soviet champion Boris Spassky for the...
‘In the Name of My Daughter’ review: Lifetime-like tragedy
The French film "In the Name of My Daughter" is based on a tricky real-life story. It's even trickier to write about without giving away spoilers, if that's even the...
Review: ‘Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago’ ★★ 1/2
Depending on how you look at it, a movie about El Camino de Santiago could be brilliant or brutally boring. On one hand, the pilgrimage, which started as a religious...