"Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" is a whimsical stop-motion animated mockumentary that is based on three award-winning short subjects. Jenny Slate ("Gifted") provides the voice of the titular character.
Jordan Peele's ambitious and inventive sci-fi horror entry "Nope" is one part brilliant and three parts frustrating. It's as if M. Knight Shyamalan had decided to remake Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' with the goal of creeping us out. Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer play proprietors of a...
When comedian Taika Waititi wrote and directed the 2017 Marvel epic "Thor: Ragnarok," he injected the Avengers series with a playful, irreverent twist, emphasizing humor as well as action. He made Thor a bit of a goof. Still heroic, but also flawed and fearful. Watiti employs that same template with...
Kevin Hart ("Ride Along") and Woody Harrelson ("War for the Planet of the Apes") star in the Netflix action comedy, "The Man from Toronto."
"Minions: The Rise of Gru" is the fifth movie in the hit animated "Despicable Me" franchise. The kids are already tuned in, but the makers of this origin story cleverly place the action in the 1970s to give adults a cagey nostalgia hit. We learn how Gru met the yellow fellows and...
Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann ("Moulin Rouge") puts his flashy imprint on the life of the King of Rock 'n Roll. "Elvis" stars Austin Butler ("Once Upon a Time in Hollywood") in the title role and Tom Hanks ("News of the World") portrays his manager, Col. Tom Parker.
The life of rock n’ roll legend Elvis Presley gets an over-the-top, almost operatic treatment with Baz Luhrmann's phantasmagorical two-hour and forty-five-minute biopic, "Elvis," Tom Hanks plays his Svengali-like manager, Col. Tom Parker, narrating the story from his selfish, opportunistic perspective. Austin Butler is excellent as the naive but extraordinarily...
The new Netflix sci-fi thriller "Spiderhead" stars Chris Hemsworth ("The Avengers") and Miles Teller ("Whiplash") and was directed by Joseph Kosinski ("Top Gun: Maverick").
