
Behind ‘The Black String’
While at lunch one day, Brian Hanson told his friend Richard Handley an idea for a film he’d come up with back in 2008 with another friend. After experiencing some

While at lunch one day, Brian Hanson told his friend Richard Handley an idea for a film he’d come up with back in 2008 with another friend. After experiencing some
Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino is known for his genre-defying blockbuster films that combine elements of art house, violence and comedy in his Academy Award-winning films. And the San Fernando Valley

As we roll into fall we will take a look at a couple of popular beers of the season. Today most Craft Breweries are producing some type of seasonal beer

It’s hard to believe that we are already in August but as fall approaches the growing selection of Pumpkin Beers will start appearing at your local breweries and on retail

We just won’t leave Kong enough alone, will we? For some 80 years now, through movie after movie after movie, the giant ape has been minding his own giant ape

If I were to rate my favorite BatmYou can tell me “Fist Fight” is a live-action, R-rated cartoon, and I shouldn’t take any of it literally. You can tell me

With “The Comedian” arriving in theaters, it’s safe to say I now have only nine spaces left on my list of the 10 worst movies of 2017. What’s more painful

All the best dog movies make you cry — but it’s usually because by the time we say goodbye to the beloved canine, we’ve shared an amazing journey with the

The writer-director M. Night Shyamalan shook up the movie world in the late 1990s and early 2000s with beautifully constructed, breathtakingly original films such as “The Sixth Sense,” “Unbreakable” and
We go from breaking news alerts to “based on a true story” movies in fairly rapid fashion these days. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of New Orleans

Even with all the special effects and practical effects wizardry available to the movie world, sometimes you see a fable brought to live action on the big screen and you

Raise a glass of holiday cheer to “Hidden Figures,” the “Rocky” of math movies. You might just find yourself applauding during certain moments of dramatic triumph in Theodore Melfi’s unabashedly

One night in the near future, you’ll be on the sofa, surfing at-home movie viewing options, and you’ll come across “Passengers.” Hey, you’ll say to yourself or to the person

If you’ve somehow lived your whole moviegoing life outside of the “Star Wars” galaxy and you wouldn’t know a Lord Vader from a droid from a Rebel Alliance, I believe

Have you ever worked for a company that failed miserably, despite all the wonderful and talented people working there? “Office Christmas Party” is the holiday comedy movie version of such

Ho Ho No. If you were thinking of checking out “Bad Santa 2” in a movie week where some truly wonderful films are arriving in theaters, this is me, standing

Indeed, Moana IS a princess in that she is next in line to become the ruler of a Polynesian island where the people live in harmony, with only one rule

What a wonderful wizard world. Some 15 years after the release of the first “Harry Potter” movie, the J.K. Rowling cinematic universe expands to the past and to the spin-off

No sense in pretending Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” isn’t as loopy as it is lofty, as confounding as it is exhilarating, as confusing as it is enlightening. I’m not gonna tell

Note: This review contains SPOILERS. Even though the story is based on well-documented true events from some 70 years ago, fair warning. When the young Desmond Doss is growing up