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"The Hospital": Health Care We Probably Don't Want -- But a Movie We Do!
“The Hospital” entertains us as a satire containing a mix of comedy, drama, and mystery. George C. Scott plays Herbert Block, whose life is mo…
‘Lazarus’ almost raises a whole film genre from the dead
“The Lazarus Effect” is what happens when hip, smart actors commit themselves to a horror movie, body and soul.
‘Birdman’ is the kind of movie that benefits most from winning best picture
“Birdman” may have scored the top awards at the Oscars, but it has hardly soared at the box office.
Smith and Robbie throw a wet blanket into “Focus”
The trouble with movies about “The Big Con” is that they condition us to not believe anything we see up on screen — relationships, who is conn…
NAU Film Series: Seeing clearly
In my experience, one of the greatest challenge for many artists is clarity of vision -- that is, the ability to communicate a message through…
February 20, 2015 5:00 am PhotosPhotos
'Hot Tub Time Machine 2' is lukewarm, at best
John Cusack has been reduced to Z-grade action comedies, shot in Australia and co-starring Thomas Jane, at this stage of his career.
Oscars producers hoping for another ‘Adele Dazeem’ moment
The day after the Oscars last year, the show’s producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron received a call from John Travolta apologizing for fumblin…
‘McFarland’ is feel good movie of February
His name is Jim White. He’s a coach. But that last name is all the students — his prospective athletes — need to know at McFarland High School.
Sedona Film Festival: Where reels and red rocks meet
Even for a machine as well oiled as the Sedona International Film Festival, solidifying a lineup often whittles down to the wire. Between book…
February 15, 2015 5:00 am PhotosPhotos
Sedona Film Festival Sidebar
The Sedona International Film Festival is appropriately renowned for its compelling feature films, shorts, documentaries and world cinema choi…
NAU Film Series: Sweet and sour: Billy Wilder's secret to success
The theme of this year’s NAU College of Arts & Letters Film Series is original Oscar nominated and winning screenplays. Such a series woul…
‘Fifty Shades’ of dull
Christian Grey summons up his most menacing voice and makes his threat.
February 12, 2015 4:06 pm PhotosPhotos
Spider-Man heads to Marvel Cinematic Universe before next solo film
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Spider-Man is coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“Kingsman” sends up Bond by stealing a (bad) Bond movie plot
The Spy Who Amused Me, James Bond, has abdicated that title. That’s the gap the Mark Millar/Dave Gibbons comic “The Secret Service” leaped int…
NAU Film Series: "La Strada": Fellini’s road
In the opening scene of Italian director Federico Fellini’s film “La Strada,” a cruel circus strongman buys a girl from a poor family for 10,0…
February 06, 2015 3:00 am PhotosPhotos
Bridges almost saves ‘Seventh Son’ from being a total snoozer
The only question that’s worth considering in “Seventh Son” is whether this all-star B-movie is bad enough to cost Julianne Moore her “Still A…
‘Spongebob’ steps out of water for his latest movie
Spongebob Squarepants goes where Homer Simpson and others have gone before, an animated character who steps out of his colorful 2D world and i…
February 03, 2015 9:23 pm PhotosPhotos
‘Jupiter’ is the nadir of the Wachowski’s big budget career
The Wachowskis cash their last blank check from Warner Brothers with “Jupiter Ascending,” an excruciatingly empty chunk of eye candy that spen…
Local filmmaker gets screening at Harkins beginning today
A troubled veteran. A missing grandfather. A secret government agency -- and the Navajo Nation.
January 30, 2015 5:30 am PhotosPhotos
NAU Film Series: Escaping reality with 'American in Paris'
“An American in Paris” is the perfect film to escape reality.
January 29, 2015 11:38 pm PhotosPhotos
‘Almanac’ lets teens time travel, with predictable consequences
Time travel meets “found footage” in “Project Almanac,” a “Blair Witch/Chronicle” tale about pretty teens tampering with all things temporal.
‘Black or White’ finds dramatic promise in the grey areas of American race relations
“Selma” wasn’t the only film about race to get short shrift from Oscar voters this past year. “Black or White” is a frank, touching and very w…
January 27, 2015 6:47 pm PhotosPhotos
NAU College of Arts and Letters Film Series: The 'Notorious' Alfred
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 romantic spy thriller, “Notorious,” is ranked by many people as their favorite Hitchcock film.
January 23, 2015 3:30 am PhotosPhotos
George Lucas works ‘Strange Magic’ with new animated film
Forget Joseph Campbell and “The Power of Myth.” The inspiration for “Strange Magic,” the new animated feature co-written and produced by “Star…
‘The Boy Next Door’ is lousy neighbor
Jennifer Lopez’s new movie, “The Boy Next Door,” is cheesier than a Chicago double topping deep dish pizza. From the profoundly absurd idea th…
January 21, 2015 6:23 pm PhotosPhotos
Is 'Sniper' a litmus test for patriotism?
“Selma” didn’t stand a chance. On the long weekend celebrating the defiantly nonviolent legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., American moviegoers …
Average movie ticket price rose to $8.17 in 2014
The average price of a movie ticket rose to $8.17 in 2014, the highest yearly average on record, according to The National Assn. of Theatre Owners.
Hemsworth misfires in cyber-thriller 'Blackhat'
I can see casting Chris Hemsworth as Thor. After all, he’s 6 feet 3, and Hollywood’s physique trainers have bulked him up to Marvel superhero …
NAU Film Series: 'Road to Utopia': Lowbrow genius
This week’s offering is the 1946 comedy “Road to Utopia.” The film was the fourth of the hugely successful Road series that starred Bing Crosb…
January 16, 2015 3:00 am PhotosPhotos
‘Wedding Ringer’ is a winner
“The Wedding Ringer” is “Wedding Crashers Redux,” a “Hangover Lite” that softens manic funnyman Kevin Hart’s persona into someone almost as fu…
‘Paddington’ summons cuddly memories of everybody’s favorite British bear
“Paddington” brings children’s book hero Paddington Bear to the screen in a movie as sweet as orange marmalade, as sentimental as a stuffed to…
‘American Sniper’ leaves too much unexplored
Arriving in theaters just over 22 months after Chris Kyle’s untimely death at a shooting range near Glen Rose, Texas, “American Sniper” often …
January 13, 2015 6:47 pm PhotosPhotos
NAU Film Series: A movie that changed the movies
Our Original Oscar Winning and Nominated Screenplays season begins with 1941’s “Citizen Kane,” the movie most likely to be called the greatest…
Despite premise, stars, ‘Inherent Vice’ a disappointment
“Inherent Vice” is an absurdist gag from the occasionally brilliant writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson, whose exquisite filmography runs fro…
‘Woman in Black’ comes into the light for this unscary sequel
The first wide release of 2015 is a deathly dull affair, a pointless, passionless ghost story sequel that lacks the one big thing the original…
‘Selma’ is moving, but not quite one of the best pictures of 2014
Earnest and often inspiring, “Selma” is a handsomely mounted “Eyes on the Prize” account of the defining protests of the civil rights movement…
NAU Film Series: Serving up screenplays
One of the most lauded films in cinema history hits Flagstaff this month as NAU’s College of Arts and Letters Film Series opens its spring ins…
January 02, 2015 4:00 am PhotosPhotos
‘Into the Woods’ finds the feeling behind the fables
The journey from stage to screen has been a remarkably long one for Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods.”
December 24, 2014 3:09 pm PhotosPhotos
Hollywood ending a lackluster year at the box office
President Obama urged Americans to go to the movies.
Wahlberg’s ‘Gambler’ never lets us see him sweat
Mark Wahlberg takes on his most ambitious acting job ever in “The Gambler,” a gritty remake of a 1974 film that starred James Caan. And the ne…
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