Home Alone 2: Lost in New York?is?the follow-up to Macauley Culkin’s hit?Home Alone, where he fended off two crazed robbers as Kevin, a kid stranded at home without his family. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern return as his nemeses, Harry Lime and Marv Merchants, only this time, they’re in a battle through the Plaza Hotel…
In 2008,?Taken?set the bar for which all other parent-rescues-child movies would be measured. Let’s be clear: Halle Berry is no Liam Neeson, but she works hard to bring the audience along on a rollercoaster ride as she seeks to free her son from his captors. For the record, this one works better than Jamie Foxx’s…
In Junior Bonner, Steve McQueen finds himself playing an over-the-hill rodeo rider, between?Bullitt?and?The Getaway?in 1972. Working with violent Western director Sam Peckinpah, McQueen helps tell a story that is not filled with gun violence, but does tell of a dramatic change in the lives of its characters and the America of the twentieth century. Junior…
Joe Roberts has tried to do right by his family, first working hard on a farm that was foreclosed on and then reluctantly picking up the badge of a small Nebraska town sheriff. Now, as his troubled brother Frank returns to town, Roberts is faced with choices about loyalty to family or adhering to the…
The prequel to?Annabelle,?which is actually part of?The Conjuring?franchise,?Creation?tells the story of how an evil spirit tricks an unsuspecting set of parents into allowing it to inhabit a porcelain doll. Like most sins, this starts out with well-enough intentions and quickly goes south. Directed by David F. Sandberg (behind the phenomenon?Lights Out?and the upcoming?Shazam!?film), Anthony LaPaglia…
Penalty?is a film about futbol (or soccer), played on a sandy beach with incredibly high stakes. In?Aldo Iuliano’s carefully crafted story and direction, the film provides a powerful, emotional punch that will take audiences’ breath away. Here is the story of?Penalty in Iuliano’s own words. What is your background in filmmaking? I started out as…
I doubt that Dr. Seuss knew the phenomenon he’d create when he penned How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 1957, critiquing the way that Christmas had been co-opted financially and culturally against its meaning. Adapted into the beloved television special in 1966 and created as a live-action manifestation in 2000, the story has a life…
DC Animation’s latest pits two legends against each other in Batman vs. Two-Face but the production is a much bigger deal thanks to the vocal talent behind the diversity of characters. A sequel to Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, this is a light-hearted take on the characters with deeper inclinations, as well as a…
When Del (Andrew Bachelor) finds out that his father (Mike Epps) and uncle (Terry Crews) hid a stash of stolen cash in a building now occupied by a white fraternity at the University of Southern California, he hatches a plan with his friends, Juice (Allen Maldonado) and Alicia (Kat Graham), to infiltrate the frat and…
Before Michael Keaton danced with the devil beneath the pale moonlight, before Tobey Maguire discovered great power, before Hulk smashed the puny god, Christopher Reeves and director Richard Donner paved the way for every superhero film that has come since.
