Day: February 11, 2019

The Possessed is based on one of Italy’s most notorious crimes, The Alleghe killings, and adapted from the book by acclaimed literary figure Giovanni Comisso. It seems like a giallo, but it’s way closer to a film noir. Or maybe an art film. Often, people say that a movie feels like it’s inside a dream, […]

Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and written by Mark Perez, Game Night is pretty much The Game, but instead of Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, we have a group of friends whose murder mystery night turns real when one of them is kidnapped. Hijinks, as they say, ensue. Max and Annie (Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams) […]

Peter Segal has made films that people love — Tommy Boy, 50 First Dates, The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps — and critics hate. Here, he’s remaking the Mel Brooks and Buck Henry show that ran from 1965 to 1970. Instead of Don Adams, Steve Carrell takes over as Maxwell Smart. Smart is more geek than spy, in […]