Title: Side Effects Director: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vinessa Shaw, Ann Dowd The phrase “pharmaceutical thriller” doesn’t exactly mentally elicit the sound effect…
Set five years after the events of its predecessors, “Paranormal Activity 4” focuses on a Nevada family that includes cute teen girl Alex (Kathryn Newton) and her adopted kid brother…
Title: Spiders Director: Tibor Takacs Starring: Patrick Muldoon, Christa Campbell, Sydney Sweeney, William Hope, Pete Lee-Wilson A serviceable enough B-feature of the sort that could appropriately induce nightmares in adolescents…
Liam Aiken made his screen debut playing Parker Posey’s son at age seven in 1997’s “Henry Fool,” and then kept working as a kid, in movies like “Stepmom,” “Sweet November,”…
French-born filmmaker Quentin Dupiex elicited quite a stir in 2010 with his low-budget “Rubber,” an absurdist horror comedy about a psychokinetic tire that roams the dusty American Southwest, exploding the…
Title: Warm Bodies Director: Jonathan Levine Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry, Analeigh Tipton, John Malkovich, Dave Franco, Cory Hardrict A funky and fresh tale of adolescent self-doubt and…
Title: Bullet to the Head Director: Walter Hill Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Christian Slater, Sarah Shahi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jon Seda, Weronika Rosati, Jason Momoa After dipping a toe into…
Title: Girls Against Boys Director: Austin Chick Starring: Danielle Panabaker, Nicole LaLiberte, Liam Aiken, Michael Stahl-David, Andrew Howard, Matthew Rauch A wan, overly precious and self-satisfied psychological thriller that tries…
Certain second-generation actors or celebrities have a breezy charm and a well-grounded self-awareness about the benefits and drawbacks of show business life, while others wear bequeathed crowns of entitlement that…
