I’ll confess up front that, before director Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 reboot, I was never a Planet of the Apes fan. I’m not a detractor of the original cycle of films …
Edgar Wright combines car chases and a pitch-perfect soundtrack in ‘Baby Driver’
In a way, it feels strange to applaud an Edgar Wright film for its originality. The director of Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World has endeared …
New movies: ‘Baby Driver,’ ‘The Beguiled,’ ‘Despicable Me 3,’ ‘The House’
OPENING THIS WEEK Baby Driver In Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright’s eagerly awaited heist flick, there’s no such thing as a music cue that’s too on the nose; …
New Movies: ‘Beatriz at Dinner,’ ‘Transformers: The Last Knight,’ and ‘Tubelight’
Beatriz at Dinner Salma Hayek stars as a Mexican-American massage therapist stranded at a dinner party thrown in honor of a boorish, stunningly racist real estate tycoon (John Lithgow). …
’47 Meters Down’ serves up shark scares for summer
If we’re lucky, the summer movie season offers up at least one sturdy shark thriller that isn’t a Syfy-branded exercise in schlock. Last year it was The Shallows, a slickly …