Eric D. Snider A First-Timer's Report from Fantasia Festival Aug 9th, 2018If you're like me, you 1) assumed the Fantasia International Film Festival just showed Disney's Fantasia on a loop for a few days; and 2) are a...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Dog Days Should Be Terrible But Isn't Aug 8th, 2018You know those Garry Marshall ensemble comedies like Mother's Day and New Year's Eve, where various strangers' lives intersect around a particular...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Eighth Grade Much Funnier, Slightly Less Painful Than Eighth Grade Aug 7th, 2018Bo Burnham, the first YouTube comedian to leverage his online fame into a mainstream career, is 27 years old and a boy. Yet he has somehow written...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: The Darkest Minds Cheerfully Portrays the Death of All Children Aug 3rd, 2018With basic-cable production values and an exceedingly generic story, The Darkest Minds is the latest teenage dystopian fantasy film based on a...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: A Gentle, Watered-Down Christopher Robin Aug 3rd, 2018Disney's Christopher Robin is not a biography of Christopher Robin Milne, the boy featured in his father A.A.'s Winnie-the-Pooh books. There was a...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: More Like The Spy Who Dumped Meh Aug 2nd, 2018The two main characters in The Spy Who Dumped Me are ordinary women who get caught up in international espionage and turn out to be -- what are the...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Mission: Impossible — Fallout Will Entertain You or Die Trying Jul 27th, 2018Tom Cruise has been starring in Mission: Impossible movies for 22 years, and his character, un-killable super-spy Ethan Hunt, has been on the job...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Teen Titans Go! To the Movies Just for Kids (and Their Geek Parents) Jul 27th, 2018Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, the very meta big-screen adaptation of the Cartoon Network series Teen Titans Go!, is about a quintet of adolescent...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Sorry to Bother You Is Lying, It's Actually Quite Pleased to Bother You Jul 27th, 2018It would seem rapper and activist Boots Riley watched a few Michel Gondry movies (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind, etc.) and...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Is Like the First Mammia Mia!, but Good Jul 20th, 2018Mamma Mia! was a badly written headache based on a badly written live musical, adapted for the screen by the same people who had staged it on...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: The Equalizer 2 Equalizes More Things Jul 20th, 2018At the end of The Equalizer (2014), you probably thought everything that needed equalizing had been taken care of. Wrong, dummy! The Equalizer...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Blindspotting an Explosive Racial Comedy and Oakland Love Letter Jul 18th, 2018Blindspotting is an explosive racial comedy, a love letter to Oakland, and a jumpstart to the movie career of its star, Daveed Diggs, who co-wrote...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana Guilty of Being an Entertaining Doc (Fantasia Festival) Jul 17th, 2018(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival; distribution plans not yet announced.) Owing to the slippery definition of the word and our robust (for...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Unfriended: Dark Web Is Too Silly to Terrify, but Fun to Go Along With (Fantasia Festival) Jul 15th, 2018(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival; opens July 20 in U.S. theaters) Unfriended: Dark Web has no connection to 2015's Unfriended except that...
Eric D. Snider REVIEW: Banal Script Really Puts the 'Crap' in Skyscraper Jul 13th, 2018How you gonna hire one-legged Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to insect the safety features of your spectacular new Hong Kong high-rise, then let bad guys...
