‘Kajillionaire’ aims for gold but comes up with pocket change

“Kajillionaire” does have echoes of some of the lesser “Ocean’s” movies, though — it too attempts to patch over its purposelessness with a shallow payoff at the end.
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“Kajillionaire” does have echoes of some of the lesser “Ocean’s” movies, though — it too attempts to patch over its purposelessness with a shallow payoff at the end.
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With the general consensus that there were no major snubs in this year’s Academy Awards nominations, category predictions become all the more interesting.
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The film’s narrative challenges its apparent attempt at seriousness, but there’s no question as to whether “The Shape of Water” is visually stunning.
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This isn’t a country — this is America, and America is a business.” Jackie Cogan confidently says these words in a run-down bar in the heart of a post-Katrina New Orleans as a TV in the background shows Barack Obama delivering a campaign speech during the 2008 presidential race. Taking
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It is impossible to talk about “The Cabin in the Woods” without revealing the sinister, strange tricks it has up its sleeve. Cutting to the root of the genre, the film begins as an uninspired riff on horror mythology as five teenagers — the jock, the blonde bimbo, the smart
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Classic Schmosby. After seven years of playing Ted Mosby in “How I Met Your Mother,” Josh Radnor has been making efforts to discover life apart from his architect alter ego. However earnestly he has tried to create another image of himself, he only kind of, sort of departs from Ted.
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