For some people, getting into the family business is something that’s expected and considered honorable. The profession is usually something you’re familiar with, and you’re usually welcomed with the various arms of the family being open and ready to accept you. In Italy’s Black Souls (Anime Nere), we’re introduced to someone who’s in a position just like that, but unlike …

Good sequels can be hard to come by. Too often filmmakers essentially reproduce the first film, or deviate too far from what audiences initially fell in love with; the balance between maintaining the essence of the first film with creating newness is difficult. As a huge fan of 2012’s Pitch Perfect, I am happy to report that Pitch Perfect 2 …

The Summer Movie Season may have just begun, but with the arrival of Mad Max: Fury Road, the exhilarating fourth installment in George Miller’s apocalyptic franchise, the remaining blockbusters might as well go home and try again next year. It’s going to be pretty hard to top this brilliantly orchestrated cavalcade of twisted metal, which is not just a wildly …

Few cinematic experiences are as painful to endure as a bad comedy. Dramas can have poor acting and invasive scores, or soap operas incoherent plots, but their shortcomings pale in comparison to the embarrassment of a joke that fails to land. Though Hot Pursuit is not the worst cinematic experience I have had this year, its lack of actual comedy …

There looks to be an innate need to be seen as a popular person in many of us. It’s an understandable desire that may be desired due to never being well liked or wanting to achieve goals in a field that requires people to find you appealing in order to reach a certain level of actual success. In The D …