Author: Kasey Butcher

While American Sniper generated giant ticket sales and controversy last weekend, I opted instead to see an adaptation about a

Selma, the new film about the historic protests in Selma, Alabama, opens with a jarring shift. The audience is taken

Several times recently, I have hinted at my frustration about movies coming out in limited release. It is not unusual

When I finished reading Suzanne Collins’s Mockingjay, I wished that there had been a fourth book. The last installment of

Back in the ’90s and early 2000s, I was a big fan of Behind the Music and E! True Hollywood

If you watch enough movies, it starts to seem like the same stories are repeated over and over. Sometimes, though,

One of my favorite parts of the fall is that the really good movies-the Best Picture contenders-start to show up

When I read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, I read it in one sitting. I read a lot, but it’s

I am one of those sad people who gets pretty worked up if an animal is injured or killed in

Last weekend, I saw one of the worst movies I’ve seen in years—The November Man. Like with Winter’s Tale, I’m

Anytime a book is adapted for film, there’s the chorus of readers declaring that the book is always better than

Get On Up tells the life story of James Brown (Chadwick Boseman) from his childhood of deep poverty and neglect

Stuck in a week with nothing good to see, I took a chance on a movie I would never go

Whether from her days as Sookie on Gilmore Girls or her Oscar-nominated role in Bridesmaids, many people have become big

Every now and then when I check the movie listings, I see a movie that I had never heard of

I went to see The Fault in Our Stars on a Tuesday evening in a movie theater peppered with impossibly

Recently, there has been a fair amount of backlash against so-called “pink princess culture” and some serious discussions about creating

Years ago, Turner Classic Movies ran a bunch of old monster movies. The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Thing,

Like clockwork, you can count on superhero movies hitting the theaters in May. Newly released is The Amazing Spider-Man 2,

I’ll admit that everything I know about football I learned from Kyle Chandler. I know enough about movies, however, to

You probably know the story of Noah’s Arc from the Bible or nursery school. In Noah, however, director Darren Aronofsky

A long time ago (2004-2007), the CW aired a show that combined the hard-boiled detective of film noir classics and

I fly fairly regularly and in the boarding area, I like to play this game called “Please Don’t Let Me

It seems fitting that the studios dump all their less successful projects at the height of awards seasons. Compared to

I can’t remember the last time I was this disappointed in a movie. Monuments Men boasts an all-star cast and

As technology has evolved and become increasingly integrated into seemingly every facet of our daily lives, there have been studies

I’m a Disney Princess skeptic. As a kid, I loved all of the Disney movies, but as the princesses became

It doesn’t seem like it would be a holiday season anymore without the latest installment in some young adult franchise.

As a genre, romantic comedies are known for their predictability. The marriage plot even predates movies. About Time, the latest

The movie I really wanted to see was in limited release this week, forcing me to wait for the romantic