Fred Topel The Incredibles certainly owes a lot to the superheroes who came before them. Brad Bird’s 2004 film was both an homage to superhero lore and a deconstruction of the genre. Now the long-awaited sequel Incredibles 2 pays homage to some of his favorites. The Parr family TV shows different programming throughout Incredibles 2. One is
You may know Jim Rash as Dean Pelton from TV’s Community, or perhaps from his outreached leg accepting the Oscar for writing The Descendants with his partner Nat Faxon. Rash stars in a new movie in theaters this weekend, Bernard and Huey. Bernard (Rash) and Huey (David Koechner) are estranged friends until Huey comes back
The Force Awakens was a passing of the torch to a new generation of Star Wars in more ways than one. The original stars were there to turn things over to the next generation, and the very character of Chewbacca passed from Peter Mayhew to Joonas Suotamo. Suotamo played Chewbacca again in The Last Jedi,
George Lucas’s original idea for Star Wars was to tell this epic story through the eyes of the lowly droids. Well, the new Star Wars movies put a bit more focus on the humans but the droids steal the show. Solo: A Star Wars Story is no exception, with the introduction of L3-37. Solo tells
Book Club is this week’s counterprogramming offering against the summer superhero tentpoles, but it’s actually good for everybody. It’s got positive messages for both men and women, senior and junior. Vivian (Jane Fonda), Sharon (Candice Bergen), Carol (Mary Steenburgen) and Diane (Diane Keaton) have kept their book club going for decades. Each at various stages
When Melissa McCarthy goes back to college and becomes the Life of the Party, she meets a sorority full of wacky characters along with her own daughter (Molly Gordon). Gillian Jacobs plays Helen, an older student who’s still a sophomore because she was in a coma for eight years. Jacobs spoke with Monsters and Critics
When I was a kid, I had movies like Revenge of the Nerds and Animal House to show me how fun college would be. There haven’t really been college party movies for girls until recently with The House Bunny and Neighbors 2. Hopefully Life of the Party will be this generation’s college party movie. Deanna
Last year’s disaster epic Geostorm reportedly underwent significant reshoots. The good news is, the film’s best scene was there all along. Towards the end of the movie, Ed Harris pulls a rocket launcher from the trunk of his towncar, because of course he does. Director Dean Devlin confirmed that the rocket launcher scene was part
Last year, You Were Never Really Here won Best Actor and Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival. Now the film is making its way through arthouse theaters in limited release. Joaquin Phoenix plays Joe, a veteran who now freelances rescuing children from sex trafficking rings. Lynne Ramsey adapted the book by Jonathan Ames, and
The blockbuster culture of Hollywood dates back to Jaws in 1975. Once Star Wars hit, studios went into the business of tentpole hits. By the ‘90s, studios were banking on summer tentpoles to pay for the rest of the year’s slate of films. Dean Devlin was instrumental in the ‘90s, producing Independence Day and Roland