If the 2007 action comedy “Hot Fuzz,” starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, poked light fun at the homoerotic subtext of “Point Break,” starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves, then the new action comedy **“22 Jump Street”** is its doltish, punch-drunk cousin. With ludicrously ...
**“Edge of Tomorrow”** is a sci-fi actioner with the mechanics of a video game, where the protagonist gets another life and another chance every time he dies, but retains the knowledge and skill of all past lives. What helps the movie rise above a superficial level, however, is that it ...
There’s a telling scene toward the beginning of **“Maleficent,”** a revisionist retelling of “Sleeping Beauty,” from Disney, the same studio that made the classic fairy tale famous again with its animated version in 1959. For a brief moment, outside the contrived conflict that ...
Since Bryan Singer's "X-Men" debuted in 2000, Hollywood has given us three different Incredible Hulks, two Spider-Men, two more Supermen, and has started rebooting the Fantastic Four and Daredevil. The filmic legacy of the X-Men before now spanned six uneven movies and covers confusing ...
What kind of a movie would waste the talents of Oscar nominees **Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe** and **Juliette Binoche**? A “Godzilla” movie, that’s what kind. Another way to look at it is that **“Godzilla,”** the newest reboot of a franchise that started in ...
The tried-and-true comedy setup of the hard-partying fraternity vs. the stuffy adults has been a staple of American films ever since the classic “National Lampoon’s Animal House.” “Old School” put a new spin on it by having middle-aged men relive their college heyday, but for the most ...