La Crosse Tribune Movie Reviews

There’s a lot to like about Disney’s “Tomorrowland.” It has George Clooney and Hugh Laurie, robots and explosions, a positive message, and it puts the fate of the future in the hands of two sm…

The silences in “Mad Max: Fury Road” are unsettling.

“Ex Machina” is a tense tale of artificial love so intelligently crafted and edgy that I adored it myself. It juxtaposes several kinds of stories like a Chinese puzzle. It’s a coherent, suspen…

It will surely stand as one of the most peculiar and possibly ironic entries in a director’s filmography that in between Joss Whedon’s two “Avengers” films there reads “Much Ado About Nothing”…

Is it possible for a movie to be at once ludicrously silly and genuinely moving? That’s the strange question you might find yourself asking while watching “The Age of Adaline,” a romantic fant…

“Monkey Kingdom,” Disneynature’s latest Earth Day offering, is an intriguing peek inside the social structure of macaque monkey society in Sri Lanka.

Fast-moving fight scenes, outrageous auto antics and a sprinkling of ridiculous one-liners make “Furious 7” a campy, crowd-pleasing escape.

In “Home,” the latest adventure from DreamWorks Animation, the misfit alien protagonist is called Oh (“The Big Bang Theory’s” Jim Parsons) simply because that’s the resigned reaction everyone …

Given that conformity is the scourge of the “Divergent” series and much of its young-adult ilk, it’s a shame that the films, including the new “Insurgent,” do so little to stray from well-worn…

In this age of revisionist, modernized Disney fairytales, where we’ve learned that some of our favorite characters really aren’t what they seemed, the striking thing about the studio’s sumptuo…

Wrongheaded in conception, eye-rolling in execution, “Chappie” is a childish blend of the cute robot goofiness of “Short Circuit” and the bloody-minded mayhem of “RoboCop.” It never finds its …

If the mark of a good con artist is that he or she makes you think you know exactly what’s going on — when of course you haven’t a clue — that’s also the mark of a good con-artist movie, isn’t…

“McFarland, USA” could so easily have been yet another mushy, feel-good, by-the-numbers sports underdog movie. And in beginning, it seems like it’s heading there.

Curious? The posters for “Fifty Shades of Grey” coyly ask.

Would that all of our brains resembled that of SpongeBob SquarePants — and we’re talking about his actual brain, like, the cerebral matter located somewhere inside that porous yellow body.

What have we done to deserve another found-footage movie? The tired hand-held technique that seemed so fresh in 1999 with “The Blair Witch Project” long ago wore out its welcome.

Director Michael Vollmann and producer Chris James Thompson had their short film accepted to Sundance and then sold to CNN.

These films might not all be coming to a theater near you this year, but they’ll likely be coming to a screen near you one way or another.

Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher had the music video they directed for "Peter on Your Mind" accepted at Slamdance, the scrappy alternative to Sundance.

Steltzner, a lead designer on the Mars Curiosity Rover, was asked to serve on a special jury for a prize honoring science in film.