Film + TV

Labelling this “the Jewish Exorcist” wouldn’t begin to cover the recycled influences at work in the tamely titled The Possession, but it’s a good start. Divorced dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) wants to be there for his daughters and reconcile with overprotective mother (Kyra Sedgwick). But their boring lives are threatened when daughter Emily acquires the […]

New York’s newest superhero rides a fixie in the non-stop Premium Rush; a cyclist porn chase flick starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Levitt plays Wilee (like the Roadrunner-chasing coyote) a high speed bike messenger who proudly zips around Manhattan on a fixed gear, steel frame bike with no brakes. After picking up a seemingly ordinary delivery from […]

Real-life sweethearts Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard give audiences a window into their relationship in the mostly mundane car chaser Hit and Run. When college prof Annie (Bell) gets a once-in-a-lifetime job offer, fiance Charlie (Shepard) decides to leave witness protection and drive her to their new life. But a jealous ex-boyfriend, and the violent […]

Malevolent supernatural entities get a suitable vessel for their evil, household mould and mildew, in the eerily stupid The Apparition. Young homeowners in a newly built subdivision, Kelly (Twilight‘s Ashley Greene) and Ben (Captain America‘s Sebastian Stan) unknowingly become the target of one of those evil phantoms college kids are always conjuring up. This particular […]

Sometimes the universe just hands you a gift: When Lauren Greenfield begins filming the Siegels, David and Jacqueline (he’s a time share baron, she is his 30 years younger wife and mother of seven of his children), it’s because they’re constructing their own version of Versailles in Florida—90,000 square feet, the largest house in America. […]

Though of pure Hollywood lineage and opportunity, Rashida Jones has instead taken a cue from her Parks and Recreation castmate Amy Poehler and made her own work, co-writing and starring in this sharp romantic comedy. After a beautiful opening credits sequence of their relationship, we meet Celeste (Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg, restrained) a few […]

Sylvester Stallone and his merry macho men are back to shoot shit…and this time, it’s personal. When one of their own is killed, Barney Ross (Stallone) and his bad-ass crew of mercenaries are propelled from their usual multi-national hooliganism into a more focused form of obliteration. Thankfully, *Expendables 2* trims away much of the love […]

Perhaps the first grindhouse inspired, stop-motion, children’s horror movie about friendship, ParaNorman proves wickedly fun no matter what your age. Eleven-year-old Norman is unfortunately ostracized at home and school over his unique ability to see and speak with the dead. But when the ghost of his deranged uncle (John Goodman) tasks him with stopping a […]

Motown melodies aren’t enough to save Salim Akil’s (Jumping the Broom) Sparkle and its meandering plot. In 1960s Detroit, three sisters form a clandestine musical trio, keeping it secret from their religious, single mother, Emma (the late Whitney Houston), who has her own tragic past in show business. Sparkle (American Idol’s Jordin Sparks) composes the […]