Essentially, Pixels is a movie that’s trying to fuse old school video games with comedy in order to create a film is something that I could have always seen working. I’m sure that would sound like a good idea to many of us, but having someone like Adam Sandler as the lead actor would make many of those same people …

I have a problem with romantic comedies. I generally find them neither funny, nor romantic, which leaves little to no appeal. Amy Schumer’s giant leap from sketch comedy to the big screen, Trainwreck, manages to both romantic and hilarious. Schumer wrote and stars in Trainwreck, with Judd Apatow directing. Her character, Amy, starts the film in a flashback to a …

Cameron (Mark Ruffalo) is manic depressive who after a stint of being hospitalized, is on the other side trying to better his life. His semi-estranged wife, Maggie (Zoe Saldana), wants to go back to school to be able to give her children a good and supportive lifestyle. In order to achieve this in a society that’s already knocking her down …

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 …

There is a certain comfort in films where not much happens. As much as I love a bloody slasher or a historical battle, quiet films where you get to really know characters and metaphorically crawl into their skin offer a very specific type of satisfaction. The Overnight is the sort of film that lets you get to know four people …