“Jupiter Ascending,” despite having a cast full of famous names and some incredible cinematography, seemed more like an awkward cross between “Twilight” and “Star Wars” than the smart, thrilling ...

MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE: Redmayne is memorably silly in the Wachowskis’ space epic. Happily for Jupiter, she’s rescued by a pointy-eared dog man who zips through the air in “gravity boots” and is ...

Whenever someone brings up Lana and Lilly Wachowski's body of work, The Matrix is always at the center of the conversation. Maybe Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas get some mentions thanks to their vocal ...

“Jupiter Ascending” is a very flashy movie but it’s a flash in a very shallow pan. Sure, it’s got lots of bright colors, loud explosions, fanciful, imaginary creatures, elaborate fantasy worlds, and ...

Larry and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig and Henry Sheehan review this week’s releases, including ‘Jupiter Ascending,’ ‘Seventh Son,’ ‘The Spongebob Movie’ and more. Plus, film critic Peter Rainer ...

In 2015, the actor Eddie Redmayne accomplished a rare double achievement. He was awarded Best Actor at the Oscars for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. Yet shortly before ...

A science-fiction movie in which a human learns that the Earth is just a small part of a large, inhabited universe? That’s pretty much par for the course. But a science-fiction movie in which she ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The world of “Jupiter Ascending” is bursting with vivid details: wolf-man hybrids and flying lizard warriors, invisible spaceships and volcanic kingdoms. The Wachowski siblings, the ...

This weekend Jupiter Ascending hits theaters. The movie, which is already getting loads of […] ...