Movies opening Friday, Oct. 26
Movies opening Friday, Oct. 26 All Together Five old friends’ bones are creaking, their memory fading – can the retirement home be far off?
Movies opening Friday, Oct. 26 All Together Five old friends’ bones are creaking, their memory fading – can the retirement home be far off?
Which movies to see this weekend, Oct .19 The latest edition of the Roxie Theater’s annual celebration of all that is noir and noirish kicks off Friday with a 20th anniversary screening of Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs,” playing alongside one of its principal inspirations, the little-known 1971 “Day of the Wolves.” Cumulatively, what you get is what you get from noir, only in an updated …
Rating ‘found-footage’ movies In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of found-footage movies. The figure listed is the percentage of critics who have rated the film positively, based on reviews listed at rottentomatoes.com. Full of creepy campfire scares, this mock doc keeps audiences in the dark about its titular …
Movies opening Friday, Oct. 19 Alex Cross Tyler Perry goes all cops and killers in this adaptation of the James Patterson thriller, as a homicide detective dancing a dangerous tango with a sly serial killer (Matthew Fox) who makes it personal.
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DVD review: ‘Crimson Petal and the White’ Gillian Anderson (“Bleak House”) plays the heartless madam of Sugar’s brothel, and Amanda Hale is the sickly, delusional wife of Sugar’s regular patron, played by Chris O’Dowd. The miniseries is sexy but, like Faber’s novel, uses the format of the Victorian novel to explore the theme of sexual and emotional repression.
Which movies to see this weekend, Oct. 12 There’s no shortage of serial killers, demons, violence and nudity.
Movies opening Friday, Oct. 12 Six Americans stroll out of the U.S
Last week, Christmas came early for many of the Maniacs on this site. Universal Studios, in celebration of their 100th anniversary, released the Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection. For all those horror aficionados, this box set was long in coming.
It’s funny when a movie comes out, nowadays, how much hype there is. There was hype back in 1994, just not like today. Tim Burton’s bio-pic on the “worst director of all time†came and went pretty quickly.