https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/ Movie reviews, HDTV and home theater news and reviews from Big Picture Big Sound. Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:55:34 PST en-us https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/The-Social-Reckoning.shtml Reviews Writer-director Aaron Sorkin picks up the thread of his 2010 masterpiece "The Social Network" to explore the downstream effects of Facebook's impact on modern life. Spoiler alert: like this film, it's not great. ]]> Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:45:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/The-Social-Reckoning.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Tenzing.shtml Reviews This reexamination of the first successful summit of Mount Everest is a handsome, sincere portrait of the man history too often left in Edmund Hillary's shadow, and even if it admires its hero more than it examines the world around him, lead actor Genden Phuntsok's understated performance and the film's immersive craft make it well worth finding on the biggest screen possible. ]]> Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Tenzing.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Digger.shtml Reviews This quirky endurance test of a film partners Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Tom Cruise in a "big message" outing that's punishingly self-important but ultimately puddle-deep. ]]> Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:45:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Digger.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Your-Mother-Your-Mother-Your-Mother.shtml Reviews Mahershala Ali gives a potent performance as a devout Houston hitman left to raise three children in writer-director Bassam Tariq's confident and surprising genre-blending crime drama. ]]> Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Your-Mother-Your-Mother-Your-Mother.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Verity.shtml Reviews The latest attempt to adapt one of Colleen Hoover’s melodramatic page-turners delivers a few jolts of energy, but its monotonously repetitive structure is ultimately a bore. ]]> Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:45:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Verity.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Heart-of-the-Beast.shtml Reviews This well-crafted but unremarkable man-versus-nature survival tale is elevated by a strikingly good canine performance, Brad Pitt's capable if underwritten turn as a war-scarred veteran, and beautiful cinematography of the Alaskan wilderness, all of which yields a moving tribute to the bond between man and dog in a film that earns its emotional payoff. ]]> Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:00:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Heart-of-the-Beast.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Ha-Chan-Shake-Your-Booty.shtml Reviews This genre-defying grief comedy about a Tokyo widow who rediscovers herself through ballroom dance is anchored by a remarkable Rinko Kikuchi performance, and while director Josef Kubota Wladyka’s surreal, culturally-specific take on mourning doesn’t always cohere it’s still a generous, imperfect film that’s well worth seeking out. ]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:30:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Ha-Chan-Shake-Your-Booty.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Resident-Evil.shtml Reviews Zach Cregger's new film is a lean piece of genre filmmaking that doesn't feel beholden to the video game franchise. ]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:00:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Resident-Evil.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/The-Uprising.shtml Reviews Paul Greengrass brings urgency and a formidable ensemble to this dramatic retelling of the 1381 Peasant's Revolt whose class-conscious anger still carries a modern sting, but its reluctant hero never convincingly grows into a leader and the film’s restless camera and patchy digital spectacle leave its most ambitious moments feeling smaller and less affecting than intended. ]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:15:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/The-Uprising.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Practical-Magic-2.shtml Reviews This follow up to 1998’s durable cable-era comfort movie brings back Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as witchy sisters seeking a balance between their magical powers and family dramas, but with repeated emotional beats, ill-timed exposition, and a storyline that feels diluted, what should play like a flickering spell yields little more than smoke. ]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:00:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Practical-Magic-2.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Buddy.shtml Reviews This Barney-esque character is one you don't want your children around. ]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:45:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Buddy.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/It-Ends.shtml Reviews This debut feature from writer-director Alex Ullom is an exercise in atmosphere and style that upends the notion of a horror movie as four friends on a joyride wind up on a road to nowhere. ]]> Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:30:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/It-Ends.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Mutiny.shtml Reviews Director Jean-François Richet and star Jason Statham deliver the brutal, efficient action fans expect once “Mutiny” gets aboard its cargo-freighter setting, even if its faceless villains and sluggish Bangkok bookends keep it from rising above the genre's well-worn formula. It's a reliable entry in the "Statham movie" subgenre — not reinventing anything but competently cashing the check its star has built a career on. ]]> Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:30:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Mutiny.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Tony.shtml Reviews Before Anthony Bourdain became the writer, chef, and provocateur the world would come to know he was an overconfident, often unlikable 19-year-old chasing a girl into a Provincetown kitchen, and writer/director Matt Johnson wisely keeps the focus there for this enjoyable, sharply-observed biopic. ]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:00:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Tony.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/The-End-of-Oak-Street.shtml Reviews This quick, dumb, fun action picture that doesn’t overexplain its “dinosaurs invade the suburbs” premise is a welcome respite from the typical mid-August movie dregs. ]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/The-End-of-Oak-Street.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Coyote-vs-Acme.shtml Reviews It's been a controversial road to the big screen for the new Looney Tunes film, but the movie survives the pressure and makes good by being entertaining. ]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:05:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Coyote-vs-Acme.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/One-Night-Only.shtml Reviews A dystopian sex-ban premise is an excuse for breezy farce rather than pointed social commentary in this bright, exaggerated comedy that's propelled by the easy chemistry of Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner, resulting in a good-natured summer rom-com that mostly delivers on its own terms. ]]> Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:00:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/One-Night-Only.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Ice-Cream-Man.shtml Reviews Gore maestro Eli Roth returns with an empty and repetitive splatter fest. ]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:00:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Ice-Cream-Man.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Spider-Man-Brand-New-Day.shtml Reviews The fourth "Spider-Man" in the Tom Holland series is the weakest of the films, but Holland's committed performance continues to carry them through. ]]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:30:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/Spider-Man-Brand-New-Day.shtml https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/I-Want-Your-Sex.shtml Reviews Indie filmmaker Gregg Araki is back with another bold, in-your-face film about sexuality and power dynamics. ]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:30:00 PST https://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/I-Want-Your-Sex.shtml