Woody Allen’s films are considered light entertainment, even when they delve into darker elements of human interaction.  The newest example of this is Irrational Man, a comedic drama which follows a troubled philosophy professor to a summer gig at a […]

Superheroes come in all shapes and sizes, and now one is the size of an ant.  He is Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) and he is an ex-con, an industrial cat burglar.  Fate, in the form of Dr. Hank Pym (Michael […]

I have never been a big fan of Judd Apatow’s.  I find his films to be crude, lewd and rude, without enough dramatic counterbalance.  But perhaps I’ve been too rash in my dismissal of Apatow, because Trainwreck is somewhat different for […]

I liked The Fault in Our Stars last year, and I think Paper Towns, based on a book by the same author, is even better.  It creates multidimensional, realistic teenage characters of a nerdy bent (they’re in band, get good grades, […]

I have come to believe that it is rather difficult to make an uninteresting or non-compelling boxing movie.  At the center are two men (or women) in primal form, knocking the snot out of each other, often in slow motion […]

It’s been a while since Adam Sandler actually produced or starred in anything of cinematic value.  Pixels actually comes close.  It has ambition; it wants to become the Ghostbusters of the arcade video game era.  With a stronger script and less rambling […]

I love the Terminator.  Not the cyborg so much, but the first, low-budget film in 1984, co-written and directed by James Cameron.  It’s as close to a perfect little movie as one can get, astonishing in its execution.  Most people […]