While Alice Through the Looking Glass is not as terrible or insufferable as Tim Burton’s first foray into Lewis Carroll’s world, the same word kept repeating in my mind while watching the 3D film: Waste.

A few times a year a film is released that is so bad, I almost feel terrible reviewing it. Mother’s Day is that film. It is heartless, pandering, sloppy, joyless, and so drenched in product placement it is likely already profitable before it ever hits the screen. Audiences who like a shred of cohesive story telling or characterization, or even …

hey don’t make them like they used to. Films like Criminal (by that I mean sloppy but reveling in its own stupidity) used to be slightly more common, but the economic disappearance of the mid-budget film has led to a dearth of bull-headed action and sci-fi films. Criminal is neither smart nor exciting, but it does not try to be …

It looks like director Ben Falcone has another dud on his hands. After the cinematic-airball that was Tammy in 2014, he has now dropped The Boss onto our laps with little ceremony or charisma. The one saving grace of the film is that occasionally Falcone lets his wife, Melissa McCarthy, run her mouth for a bit. Even with McCarthy’s comedic …

A full 14 years after the original My Big Fat Greek Wedding, it’s hard to imagine that any fans were clamoring for a sequel. After a failed television series (My Big Fat Greek Life lasted for seven episodes in 2003) it appeared that continuing the film’s storyline would not be financially responsible. And yet, here we are. My Big Fat …