Author: Kasey Butcher

My Big Fat Greek Wedding was the second movie I ever reviewed for this paper, back when I didn’t even

You know what I’m afraid of more than aliens? Car accidents and strangers. 10 Cloverfield Lane takes a step back

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the latest film starring Tina Fey, is most interesting as a war film that doesn’t engage with

The subtitle for Race, the new biopic about Olympic medalist Jesse Owens, should have been, “See What We Did There?”.

Hail, Caesar!, the latest film from the Coen brothers, playfully represents Hollywood during the Golden studio system, with a tongue-in-cheek

I think it is rare for filmmakers to really portray children playing authentically, capturing the randomness and abandon in their

The Revenant, which means “one who has returned, as if from the dead”, is our semi-annual reminder that the frontier

It has been a frustrating few months for me when it comes to the movies. Repeatedly, I went to a

This fall, I’ve reviewed a string of movies that have good working parts that do not quite come together to

The fear of being buried alive is a primal terror that has spawned its share of scary stories and legends.

With our own elections dragging on for longer each cycle, audiences might wonder why they would want to see a

Every year, a new version of Malala Yousafzai’s story has come out. Two consecutive summers featured the release of an

As we headed into the theater on Friday, my fiance turned to me and asked, “So, is The Martian just

In 2011, after 12 years on the run, James Bulger, one of the most notorious Irish mobsters in Boston, was

Amid the genuinely terrible movies that come out at the end of summer, came a film starring Robert Redford, Nick

In The Man from U.N.C.L.E., director Guy Ritche seeks to blend Mad Men style nostalgia for Cold War period pieces

Have you ever run into someone at the store and not been able to place where you know them from,

A paper town is a fictional town that is invented by cartographers to make it obvious if someone violates their

I am as big a fan of the Minions as any adult really has the right to be. There’s something

If the opening sequence to Pixar’s Up made you cry, pack your tissues for Inside Out, the studio’s new film

If you grew up in the 1990s, chances are that Jurassic Park holds a pretty special place in your memories

Last weekend, the box office offered a remake of a campy old ghost story and an original, if Disney-ified, adventure

When I think of comedy duos, the names Vergara and Witherspoon never would have come to mind. I, however, really

In Artificial Intelligence research, there is something called the Turning Test, which is used to determine if the machine can

Given the preponderance of low-quality found footage horror movies, I think I was justified in being skeptical when the ads

Last weekend, audiences taught studios a lesson about underestimating girls and women at the box office. Home more than doubled

In an era of remakes and mashups and anti-heroes, it was hard to understand why Disney would go forward with

When it comes to scary movies, I really like the artfully made ones or those that are so bad that

On The Daily Show a couple of weeks ago, Colin Firth joked that he got his role in Kingsman: The

Seeing The Loft this week is a testament to just what I will put up with for James Marsden. The