Tag: Richard Roeper
Good premise but…
IMAGINE waking up in a world where everything is the same, with one exception: Nobody has ever heard of The Beatles or any of their songs.
Common touch: The best and worst of the rapper’s movie roles
POP QUIZ! What do the following actors have in common:
On the front-line
MARIE COLVIN was one of the great combat correspondents of our time, covering conflicts everywhere from Chechnya to Sierra Leone to Sri Lanka to East Timor, and breaking stories of great impact in a career spanning more than a quarter-century.
Sailing away
IT MUST be a kick for the makeup and nifty effects people to sit in the back of a theater and soak in the reaction from the audience when a character has to stitch up that nasty cut on her forehead with a makeshift needle and thread. Or how about that moment when someone rips open a jeans leg, and we see the “bone” jutting out from a gaping wound? GROSS!
At the bloody Hotel Artemis, amazing actors do the obvious
“And she said, ‘We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.” -- The Eagles, “Hotel California”
Movies that gave a little something extra
By Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
(Warning: The following column is brimming with spoilers about movies old and new. If you haven’t seen Deadpool 2 yet...
A really good John Hughes high school movie for the 21st...
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
Love, Simon
Directed by Greg Berlanti
MAYBE IT’S TOO EASY to say Love, Simon feels like a 21st-century John Hughes high school movie...
An experience you’ll not soon forget
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
The Florida Project
Directed by Sean Baker
FOR MOST of The Florida Project, I found myself rooting for unseen authorities.
The police. The Florida...
Say it again, Peres
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
7 Days in Entebbe
Directed by Jose Padilha
THE RAID is on.
Israeli commandos are about to descend on Entebbe Airport on a mission...
Why I’m giving up on the increasingly random Walking Dead
By Richard Roeper
“THE Walking Dead Is Finally Getting Its First Totally Nude Zombie” — actual headline on Forbes.com.
Only the most popular and lasting TV...
You’ve come a long way, baby
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
Battle of the Sexes
Directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton
“YOU’VE COME a long way, baby, to get where you got to...
Killing brain cells
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
A Bad Moms Christmas
Directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
DEEP into the inept and lazy and uninspired A Bad Moms Christmas,...
Top 10 films to look forward to
By Richard Roeper
TOLD YA SO!
In my 2017 Summer Movie Preview, I listed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Alien: Covenant, Dunkirk, Wonder Woman, Detroit,...
In teen tale Everything, Everything, genuine emotions never get out
By Richard Roeper
MOVIE REVIEW
Everything, Everything
Directed by Stella Meghie
SOME 41 YEARS after John Travolta played The Boy in the Plastic Bubble and 25 years after...
A swashbuckling comedic spectacle
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge
(aka Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales)
Directed by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg
WHEN...
Mystery of unseen sniper heightens thriller’s tension
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
The Wall
Directed by Doug Liman
THIS IS a monster movie disguised as a war movie.
Set in the middle of Nowhere, Iraq, in...
Go see Gifted
Movie Review
Gifted
Directed by Marc Webb
Go see Gifted
SOMETIMES YOU LOVE a movie even as you realize it’s far from perfect.
That’s what I’m here to tell...
Go see Gifted
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
Gifted
Directed by Marc Webb
SOMETIMES YOU LOVE a movie even as you realize it’s far from perfect.
That’s what I’m here to tell...
Fearless forecast: 17 Best Movies for 2017
By Richard Roeper
LET’S TAKE A LOOK at my 17 most hotly anticipated movies of 2017. (You should have seen how many I listed in...
Collateral damage
MOVIE REVIEW
Collateral Beauty
Directed by David Frankel
By Richard Roeper
Stop.
Someone in a position of power should have said just that long before Collateral Beauty ever made...
The best movies of 2016
By Richard Roeper
10. Arrival — This is one of those sci-fi thinkers that get better with a second or third viewing. Amy Adams gives...
The worst movies of 2016
By Richard Roeper
10. London Has Fallen — The sequel to the moderate hit Olympus Has Fallen is just as bad: cliché-riddled terrorism actioner packaged...
It’s a dog’s life
By Richard Roeper
MOVIE REVIEW
The Secret Life of Pets
Directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney
TALK ABOUT a split personality.
If I broke down The Secret Life...
Only thing missing is the overwhelming scent of onions
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
Me Before You
Directed by Thea Sharrock
WHEN THE LIGHTS dim and the movie begins, we try to shed our perceptions of the...
Satisfying as homemade baklava
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Directed by Kirk Jones
WHEN they turned the 2002 feature film My Big Fat Greek Wedding into...
Slick trash
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
London Has Fallen
Directed by Babak Najafi
IT’S YOUR FAULT I had to endure London Has Fallen.
Well, maybe not YOU, specifically, but because...
Biblical detective
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
Risen
Directed by Kevin Reynolds
Give the Sony Pictures-backed Affirm Films and Risen director and co-writer Kevin Reynolds credit for making a different...
Out at sea
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
The Finest Hours
Directed by Craig Gillespie
PROPS to the cast of The Finest Hours, most of whom spend about three-quarters of their...
Flat fashion
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
Zoolander 2
Directed by Ben Stiller
FOR Austin Powers in Goldmember, the third installment of the franchise in 2002, a bounty of big-name...
A little bit of this, a little bit of that…
By Richard Roeper
FOR A manic-depressive, alcoholic, washed-up political consultant of a certain age who’s dealing with altitude sickness in strife-torn Bolivia, and, oh yeah,...