Think of Sesame Street.  Think of how you were told that as an individual you were special and with the right guidance, an upbeat attitude, some community spirit and perhaps a sunny day, nothing was impossible; you could do anything.  Now flip it.  Now you’re on Avenue Q, and guess what; it sucks to be […]

When real-life paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) states at the beginning of the horror thriller The Conjuring 2, “This one still haunts me,” she’s not referring to the story we’re about to see.  It’s the one that she and her husband Ed (Patrick Wilson) investigated in 1975: The Amityville haunting. Within just a few […]

The problem when watching the sequel to a film you never expected would ever have a sequel is trying to recall what happened at the end of the first. 2013’s Now You See Me was a fast-paced, mostly entertaining look at the world of con-artists as magicians; Robin Hoods who stole from the rich right […]

In the fish-out-of-water comedy, Puerto Ricans in Paris, Luis Guzman and Edgar Garcia play two NYPD detectives working in the Luxury Goods Recovery Unit who seem to know what they’re doing when tracking down bootleggers. As the fast-paced opening Canal Street sequence indicates, their methods may be a little unconventional but they’re nevertheless successful.  Luis […]