Author: Kasey Butcher

Do you remember seeing a movie as a kid and wanting to run out and play like you were the

I have a dog who is so devoted to me that it crosses over from sweet and loyal to slightly

There is a saying that I think could apply to the current trend for reboots, remakes and long-delayed sequels as

Saying the book is better than the movie is a tired, if true, response to a film adaptation of a

Imagine dropping Nancy Drew into a neo-noir film from the 1970s, but Miss Drew has taken on some of the

Money Monster focuses on one particularly tense day on the set of the eponymous financial advice show. In the wake

The Huntsman: Winter’s War is so bad it breezes past the potential for “so bad it’s good” enjoyment and straight

Between Gilmore Girls and Ghostbusters, Melissa McCarthy continues to pick projects certain to keep her career rolling. I find the

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