Entertainment

THE REVENANT // STUNNING Webster’s Dictionary defines the word ‘revenant’ as “one that returns after death or a long absence.” This word summarizes accurately the adversity that Oscar-nominated...

Theater Tuscaloosa Presents "The Glass Menagerie   Start this New Year off with one of the most famous plays of the modern theatre, The Glass Menagerie. This drama of great tenderness, charm, and...

The FORCE AWAKES Apparently, “Star Trek” and “Star Trek into Darkness” director J.J. Abrams adopted the strategy ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ for Disney’s revival of George Lucas’...

THE HATEFUL EIGHT // GRITTY WESTERN The world emerges as a hostile, inhospitable setting in writer & director Quentin Tarantino’s second western “The Hateful Eight," and everybody but the innocent...

SPECTRE // BEST EVER BOND Ultimately, despite a variety of problems, this globe-trotting 007 outing boasts enough good stuff to offset the bad. If picturesque settings, robust performances, sumptuous...

LAST WITCH HUNTER // HEX-RATED RUBBISH The Last Witch Hunter casts spells that are far from inspired and mediocre at best. “Dungeons & Dragons” aficionado Vin Diesel toplines this ponderous, PG-13...

PAN // NO EXPENSE SPARED Whether on the big-screen or the small screen, the media has venerated Scottish writer J.M. Barrie’s classic 1904 play and 1911 novel about a rambunctious boy who refused to grow...

BLACK MASS // DREARY, SLUGGISH “Out of the Furnace” director Scott Cooper’s “Black Mass,” qualifies as a gritty, atmospheric, but middling mobster melodrama that chronicles the life and crimes of...

THE VISIT // HOMEGROWN HOKUM Humans do incredibly asinine things in horror movies. First, there are the unreasonable psychos. Think of Norman Bates in “Psycho,” Michael Myers in “Halloween,” Jason...

TRANSPORTER // REFUELED Tall, wiry, British actor Ed Skrein resembles the late Hollywood superstar actor James Coburn of the “Our Man Flint” franchise. Not only does Skrein make a suitable substitute for...