Book Recommendations Of 2018
The end of the year is upon us, which means that between the shopping, cooking, decorating, and parties, we're also hustling to get through that "to read" stack of books sitting tauntingly by our bedside. Yet even as we page through the backlog of delayed beach reads and best of the year that squeaked [...]
10 Holiday Movies To Watch
December is the best time to put on your cozy sweaters and sip on hot chocolate while curling up on a couch. We bring you the best movies to binge-watch this holiday season filled with fun, drama, romance and most importantly, celebration. These movies are going to keep you up [...]
Justice League Review
The new DC Comics movie is the anti-'Batman v Superman': a superhero epic that's more light than dark, and the essence of generic competence. In superhero movies, sheer lively deliver-the-goods competence can be a quality you’re grateful for — or one that seems awesomely innocuous. In “Justice League,” it’s a [...]
Murder on the Orient Express Review
Kenneth Branagh Is the Culprit in This Muddled Mystery, Great source material and a strong cast are smothered by an overeager actor-director At a recent press screening of Murder on the Orient Express, we were told that we’d be seeing the movie in glorious 70mm, a nod to the period opulence of the [...]
24 HOURS TO LIVE Movie Review
In the tradition of Hal Needham (Smokey and the Bandit) and more recently, Chad Staheski and David Leitch (John Wick), stunt coordinator-turned- director Brian Smrz helms this intense, visceral and violent action flick which stars Ethan Hawke. Hawke stars as Travis Conrad, a former elite soldier who now works as [...]
The Vault (2017) Review
Two sisters must rob a bank in order to save their brother but the bank has its own dark secrets. The line that separates horror from comedy is a thin one, with the best horror films steering themselves firmly away from this line and landing squarely in pure terror. Some [...]