Maybe National Lampoon’s Vacation comedies, begun in 1983, hit your sweet spot. Maybe it’ll hit again with this next-generation reboot from writer-directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. With Ed Helms as Rusty Griswold — son of Clark (Chevy Chase) and Ellen (Beverly D’Angelo) — taking his wife, Debbie (Christina Applegate), and… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Where’s the drama and, hell, the laughs in the nonspectacle of two writers talking with and at each other? For a riveting answer, check out The End of the Tour. The film is based on the 2010 book Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, by Rolling Stone writer… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

If you blubbered through John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and the emo-blockbuster squeezed from its bestselling YA pages, you probably won’t cry all that much at the movie constructed from Green’s Paper Towns. Wait, that’s a good thing. None of the main characters die of cancer in Paper Towns… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Aliens attack Earth disguised as characters from 1980s video games. Right, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong want to kill us. Our only hope lies with arcade geeks now grown up but still immature and played by Adam Sandler, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage and Kevin James (he’s the president). Director Chris Columbus… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Jake Gyllenhaal is on a roll. Onscreen in Nightcrawler, Enemy and Prisoners, and onstage in Constellations, Little Shop of Horrors and If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, he shows the kind of versatility and commitment that should have won him prizes. The awards didn’t materialize, but it’s just… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

The latest film franchise culled from Marvel’s comic-book universe packs a ton of fun into a teeny package. Its low-key charm helps glide us over trouble spots in tone and pacing. Ant-Man stars Paul Rudd as standard-sized Scott Lang, a petty thief who gets to shrink at will and cause… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Amy Schumer makes you laugh till it hurts. Proof is in her Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer, with its classic skits on Bill Cosby and whether Schumer is hot enough for TV. Proof positive is in her starring movie debut in Trainwreck. In the lead role and as screenwriter… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Getting away with murder in a godless universe is a theme that has long compelled Woody Allen, from Crimes and Misdemeanors to Match Point. Allen sees this as a cosmic joke. And in Irrational Man, the story of an impotent, alcoholic philosophy professor (Joaquin Phoenix) who tries to rationalize homicide,… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Don’t think you can take another Hollywood version of Sherlock Holmes? Snap out of it. Apologies to Robert Downey Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch, but what Ian McKellen does with Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective in Mr. Holmes is nothing short of magnificent. This is Holmes at 93, coping with a… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Can there really be too much of a cute thing? I’m talking about the minions — those tiny, yellow, goggle-eyed creatures who served the villainous Gru (indelibly voiced by Steve Carell) in two Despicable Me blockbusters. It’s not whether this prequel can mint money; that’s a given. The questions is: Can the… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]