Alex Casey: Hail, Caesar!
The latest offering from the inimitable Coen brothers is Hail, Caesar!, a goofy love letter to the golden age of Hollywood.
The latest offering from the inimitable Coen brothers is Hail, Caesar!, a goofy love letter to the golden age of Hollywood.
Soap opera melodrama and visual effects wizardry combine in a mythical Egyptian fantasy adventure - and it's an uncomfortable mix.
The first local release of the year is an impressive adaptation of Witi Ihimaera's 1994 novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies.
It has taken me a while to process things in the aftermath of Zoolander 2.
The story of the Sonderkommando, the "special units" of Jewish prisoners in Nazi death camps forced to assist with the exterminations of the Final Solution, has been little-told in the cinema.
If you liked the arched eyebrow of the dowager countess at Downton Abbey, you just have to get a load of this.
The elderly actress said the film was "glorious". Deadpool stars Reynolds as the snarky anti-hero from Marvel Comics.
There was little about 2001's Zoolander that warranted a sequel, and yet here it is.
When Patricia Highsmith wrote The Price of Salt in 1952, its subject matter was so taboo that she needed to use a pseudonym, Claire Morgan.
You have to wonder how this exchange slipped past Deadpool's financial executives.
Warning: If you missed the book and don't know what the room is in Room, what follows may contain more spoilers than you need.
Chris Pine and Casey Affleck play two real-life US Coast Guard sailors who saved 32 men from a sinking oil tanker off Cape Cod in the winter of 1952.
Journalists are constantly exasperated by the depiction of journalism in the movies: crusading reporters who never take notes write their own (very bad) headlines for stories based on hunches, improbable disclosures, lucky breaks and dramatic confrontatio
Other than starring in David O. Russell films, in recent years seven-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner Robert De Niro has taken to appearing in lightweight films reassuring baby boomers they're relevant, and can still party large.
If you're looking for a sweet family film to entertain the younger kids these holidays, Oddball will do the trick.
The Big Short is equal parts goofy crime caper and cold-blooded rage against the machine that created the Global Financial Crisis.
Carey Mulligan stars in a riveting true story about the struggle for women's emancipation.
Despite a few hit-and-miss moments, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler prove yet again to be a dynamic duo, Francesca writes.
Well-matched actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy help deliver a savagely authentic Old West survival thriller
Quentin Tarantino has a new movie The Hateful Eight. As usual it doesn't adopt half measures.
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg were hilarious together when they teamed up in 2010 for cop movie spoof The Other Guys. While the set-up in Daddy's Home is different, their roles are similar.
The Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell show rolls back into town with family drama Joy, an offbeat and quietly entertaining yarn about the rags-to-riches true story of Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop, and her crazy family.
Whether or not Bryan Cranston wins the Best Actor Oscar in February, this biopic will surely prompt a stream of sanctimonious recollection in Tinseltown about Dalton Trumbo.
The hero of The Good Dinosaur, the latest offering from Pixar animations, isn't the adorable apatosaurus, Arlo, his unlikely human companion, Spot, or the red neck T-Rex cowboy voiced by Western film actor Sam Elliott.