‘Cop Car’ Is a Wild Blend of Amblin Innocence and Coen Brothers Violence...
Cop Car has the brutal elegance of old-school crime fiction. Two young kids find a seemingly abandoned sheriff’s cruiser in a stand of trees. One thing leads to another, and soon they’re off on a...
View ArticleThe Best Films of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival
The 2015 Sundance Film Festival ends Sunday but team /Film is already back in Los Angeles. We were on the ground in Park City for eight days, seeing and reviewing as many movies as possible. While...
View Article‘Cop Car’ Trailer: What Happens When Two Kids Steal Kevin Bacon’s Cruiser?
Movies don’t come much more lean than Cop Car, in which two kids stumble across a seemingly abandoned sheriff’s cruiser. One thing leads to another, and soon the pre-teens are off on the joyride of a...
View ArticleBest Stories of the Week: Point Break, Doctor Strange, Jonny Quest, Andy...
Did Memorial Day weekend throw you off enough that you missed some of the bigger entertainment stories this week? Well, don’t fret, because it’s time to take a look at the Best Stories of the Week....
View Article‘Spider-Man’ Director: Character Is “The Most Grounded, Relatable” Superhero
Jon Watts got the gig as the new Spider-Man director for Marvel and Sony thanks in large part to his Sundance entry Cop Car, which casts Kevin Bacon as a sheriff on the trail of two kids who have...
View ArticleMovie Mixtape: 6 Movies to Watch With ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
(Welcome to Movie Mixtape, where we find cinematic relatives and seek out interesting connections between new releases and older movies that allow us to rethink and enjoy what’s in our theaters as...
View ArticleNow Stream This: ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’, ‘Game Night’, ‘Too Old...
(Welcome to Now Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) Here we go again! I’ve searched the web far and...
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