James Ponsoldt’s intimate and deeply moving The End of the Tour is a cinematic adaptation of David Lipsky’s memoir, “Although You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace.” Given the love I have for Ponsoldt’s poignant coming-of-age story The Spectacular Now, a picture that made me cry on more than one occasion, I had high expectations …

The thunder buddies are back, but unfortunately, lightning doesn’t strike twice for Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg in Ted 2, the lazy sequel to the 2012 hit about a man-child and his foul-mouthed little teddy bear who came to life one day. Not that the first film was some kind of miraculous comic masterpiece; it was messy, episodic and unapologetically …

A few years back, my friends and I spent a Friday night drinking at a comrade’s house when she got her place to herself for a weekend. We managed to get our hands on two rather large bottles of vodka and played a variety of drinking games; completely underestimating how much liquor we were putting into our system. Before midnight, …

Do u like scary movies? Lol. Coz OMFG! This 1 is about ppl dying on Skype. Srsly! Like, WTF?!?! #Yolo Okay, sorry, enough of that, I just hate what my generation has done to the English language. Given that every single one of the intentionally dimwitted, soon-to-be-dead teenagers in the new cyber-horror film, Unfriended, texts through this mindless gobbledygook slang, …

A cartoonist, novelist and screenwriter, Alex Garland, who’s most commonly known for writing films such as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, has now made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sci-fi cautionary tale that challenges viewers with a variety of existential questions in regards to artificial intelligence. Can consciousness exist without gender? …