No corner of millennial nostalgia is safe. Even the smaller hits of the late ‘90s are now deemed worthy of a sequel. “Practical Magic…
Elegance Bratton’s “By Any Means” returns to the era of the civil rights struggle not as a history lesson, but as a unique moral…
Truth be told, there is something inherently creepy, even sinister, about a lot of children’s characters. This is a topic that has been explored in films such as “Death to Smoochy,” “Brigsby…
Family entertainment can have a tendency of being dumbed down, as if children are not meant to understand richer subtext. Of course, the point is that as a kid you’re entertained…
For most of its first act, “Insidious: Out of the Further” taps into a particular, primal fear. At least for a good portion of…
California punk rock trio Green Day has become one of the most enduring bands from the ’90s, and is now the driving force behind a coming-of-age indie rock film. Road trip…
Revenge is bittersweet in director Andrew Patterson’s “The Rivals of Amziah King.” Matthew McConaughey plays Amziah King, a bluegrass-playing beekeeper with a very open…
Like most genres, there is a particular art to the making of a good stoner comedy. Dylan Meyer’s compulsively watchable “The Wrong Girls” is…