To say The Happytime Murders is a bad movie is offensive to all the filmmakers who actually put effort into making films before this. Whether we’re talking Gigli or Glitter, the directors and actors in those films had more talent in their left pinkies than this whole cast — puppet or otherwise — cares to…

This remake to the well-regarded 1973 gem doesn’t live up to high expectations, but it’s a worthwhile endeavour for genre fans. The original stars are Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, and here we substitute the highly capable Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek. The results are interesting, but never quite mesh. The star performances — on…

Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg have been making spectacular films together since 2013. Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon and Patriots Day have all been fantastic portraits of hero Americans, and have captured audiences. So if I had to pick a current actor-director duo to start an action franchise, they would be at the top of…

There are very few occasions during which someone will encounter a below-par piece of pizza pie. Like your run-of-the-mill slice, this romantic-comedy is average genre fare with a few decent bits of flair and flavour thrown in. The best thing Little Italy has going for it is two leads who share some amiable, good-natured chemistry,…

Spike Lee’s first major studio film in five years, BlacKkKlansman, also happens to be his best since 1980’s breakout Do The Right Thing. The film, based on a wild true story, follows Ron Stallworth, a black officer from Colorado who partners with a white cop to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch. Lee’s film…

Crazy Rich Asians is gaining cred and kudos for its positive portrayal of Asian characters. It’s also the first major studio feature since 1993’s The Joy Luck Club to have an all-Asian cast, and all this is amazing for representation in Hollywood. I tried to put the huge impacts of the film’s trailblazing debut and…

Opening wide last week was the gripping, tongue-firmly-in-cheek creature feature The Meg, a film I enjoyed far more than I should have. The Meg follows an ocean technology crew who discover another layer of sea lower than even the Marianas Trench. But upon this discovery, the crew down in the depths are stalked by a…

There’s a point in Blindspotting where plot turns into poetry, and acting becomes an all-encompassing act. We feel the pain of our lead characters Collin (Daveed Diggs) and Miles (Rafael Casal) because their blood and soul are in the script, which they also wrote. With three days until the end of his probation term, an…

  This heartbreaking story of conversion camps in the early 1990’s in a testament to how far we have come on LGBTQ+ rights, but also highlights the subtle work ahead. The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows our title character — caught canoodling with a female classmate — who is sent to a bible camp to…