Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials movie review: apocalyptic pile-on
The only slightly original element of the first film — the Maze — is gone, and now we’re in not simply a generic afterscape but every sci-fi afterscape.
Lili Taylor
Blood Ties review: same old New York groove
Excellent performances by Clive Owen and Billy Crudup can’t disguise the fact that there’s absolutely nothing here we haven’t seen too many times before.
The Cold Lands trailer: guess MaryAnn’s reaction to this!
Looks like this trailer picked the wrong week to cross my path…
Blood Ties trailer: should I be depressed, or optimistic?
Great cast, but maybe it’s the same-old sameness that’s keep this from getting a major release? Could that be a reason to hope?
The Conjuring review: they make me believe
Smart, stylish horror flick, though a standout more for its elegant performances than any original scares.
The Conjuring trailers: why I’m looking forward to yet another haunted house flick
Vera Farmiga. Patrick Wilson. Lili Taylor. Ron Livingston. With a cast like that, I’m there.
Hot Tub Time Machine (review)
A tediously familiar collection of pointlessly crude moments drunk on their own cruelty and call it a movie. They should have titled it *Tucker Max to the Future* if they wanted folks to have an accurate idea of what they were in for…
Marty (review)
Lonely Bronxite Marty (Ernest Borgnine) is being shown up by his younger brothers and sisters — they’re all married but him, and he’s got all the Italian ladies in the butcher shop where he works telling him, ‘You should be ashamed a youself!’ and ‘Whena you gonna get married, Marty?’
