If the first season of?True Detective?had found itself in Los Angeles, it might have become?Triple 9. In a nearly two-hour heist flick, Australian director John Hillcoat (Lawless,?The Proposition) moves around A-list actors like chess pieces. Yes, we’ve seen a group of police officers cross over to the dark side of criminality before, but we’ve never…
Fifteen years ago, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson delivered?Zoolander, a film that ridiculously satires our thoughts on beauty, modeling, and humanitarian inclinations. It was dumb – but it seemed to be dumb on purpose. In fact, it was critically and commercially a success! But fifteen years later,?Zoolander No. 2?comes across much like the signs that…
Based on the most downloaded freemium app of all time,?The Angry Birds Movie?has grossed over $157 million dollars in its first week. With a worldwide following for the game, it was a no-brainer that the film would follow. Seriously, we’ve seen news of PONG and Centipede movies in the works, so could a hammed-up version…
Off of the coast of Cape Cod in 1952, two oil tankers were split in half by a giant storm, but only one of them had a chance to send out an S.O.S. As the main Coast Guard unit worked to rescue those on the first ship, SS Fort Mercer, a handful of men left…
How to Be Single?is?Bridesmaids?before the proposal. Starring Rebel Wilson, Dakota Johnson, Leslie Mann, and Alison Brie, the story revolves around these women as they navigate the dating scene. While none of them have found the man of their dreams at the beginning of the film, they all are pursuing a desire to fill the hole…
A year ago, as ScreenFish was born, we rallied to cover?Avengers: Age of Ultron. I had glowing things to say about this popcorn genre film that reached for the stars and shared a vision of our humanity. A year later, Marvel/Disney dropped close to our anniversary, and?my partners in crime were awestruck. I, on the…
The Holocaust remains one of the worst blights on human history. While wars have raged and millions of people have died, the genocide waged against the Jews in Europe still haunts us, rippling with hints of future violence if we fail to learn from the past. This month, two films about the Holocaust find their…
The first British cartoon to end up on Nickelodeon twenty years ago has a remake brewing! On April 29, and only on Netflix, fans of?Danger Mouse?(and sarcastic animated characters) will delight in the latest gem. Danger Mouse (Alexander Armstrong) and his sidekick Penfold (Kevin Eldon) battle the evil forces of the frog, Baron Silas von…
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart are back in the sequel to Tim Story’s 2014 cop comedy,?Ride Along. James (Cube) is on the hunt for bigger and bigger criminal fish to fry, when his soon-to-be brother-in-law, Ben (Hart), steps in to save the day – and, in the process, gets James’ partner (Tyrese Gibson) shot. Soon,…
Have you heard about the dancing polar bear??Norm of the North?wants to introduce you to Norm (Rob Schneider), who–it hopes–will do for polar bears what Happy Feet did for penguins. With less music and more hijinks, Norm gravitates from the great white north to New York City, in hopes of saving his home from the…
