Hollywood Rx

Seven outlaws band together to defend an otherwise helpless village against a band of savage marauders. The 1960 classic Western, itself based on an epic 1954 Japanese samurai film, gets a facelift in a new version fronting Denzel Washington. Why has this simple story endured so, and how has it changed over the years? Drs. D & G compare and contrast to see who wins, who loses, and who draws down. Saddle up, pod’ner…

In what may be the first anti-federalist Western (at least of this century), Ben Foster and Chris Pine play brothers who rob the banks and give to the banks, dogged by a gruff and grizzled lawman (Jeff Bridges), himself dogged by impending retirement. Bridges topples, the boys kick up some good dust, and 'Sicario' writer Taylor Sheridan douses it all with a liberal dose of post-Recession resentment. Saddle up and settle in...

Your good doctors return from an extended summer hiatus with a slightly late tribute to one of comedy’s most gifted personalities, Gene Wilder. While most remembrances focused on his popular titles, Drs. D & G go deep into his catalog and expound on his enduring legacy and why there’ll never be another one like him.

The undercover cop genre never fails to fascinate, and ‘The Infiltrator’ delivers like a kingpin’s payoff. Bryan Cranston heads a phenomenal cast in this taut tale of dueling personas with the Escobar cartel in the crosshairs. While it doesn’t quite reach the operatic heights of ‘Breaking Bad,’ it’s easily the best we’ve seen since Scorsese’s ‘The Departed.’ Find out why, and hear about Dr. D’s real-life poker duel with Walter White, by getting your fix here...

Up, up and away! The most integrated crew in the universe set their coordinates straight at your jugular in the third entry in J.J. Abrams’ reboot. Director Justin Lin takes the fun of the first entry and puts it into overdrive, and your doctors are on board with just about everything... Punch it, Sulu!

The much-anticipated reboot finally hits theaters. The inspired casting of Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon & Leslie Jones raised both spirits and hackles online for reversing those oh-so-sacred roles. Meanwhile, Hollywood green-lighters prove their allegiance to equal opportunities by making a women’s franchise as inept and inane as one for the guys. Who you gonna 'cast?...

Defying all root-for-the-shark expectations, ‘The Shallows’ turns every swimmer’s worst nightmare into a harrowing you-are-there experience. Some terrifying sequences and Blake Lively’s beyond-outstanding performance make Jaume Collet-Serra’s aquatic thriller a wet and wild white-knuckler. Reel it in here...

“We always knew they’d come back,” the poster tells us, and indeed Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin have returned to blow stuff up reeeeeeeal good. Twenty years and no requests later, Jeff Goldblum returns as Dr. Malcolm – oops, silly us, we mean Dr. Levinson – to repel the alien reptoids in this sequel both ‘roided-up and dumbed-down. Spoiler alert: Humanity wins, audience loses...

'The Lobster' is a dystopian satire about finding love, the lengths to which the lovelorn strive to conform to society, and the sacrifice of identity for companionship. Starring Colin Farrell as an Orwellian sad sack, Yorgos ('Dogtooth') Lanthimos’ first English-language feature seems to have delighted audiences the world over. So why are Drs. D and G still feeling the pain? Reel it in here...

The Docs take on 'The Nice Guys', the smart-ass punch-drunk detective snooper from 'Lethal Weapon' creator Shane Black. The unexpectedly genius pairing of Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling make this a veritable love letter to the TV detectives of the 1970s. Opportunity golden or wasted? And just who are the real “dicks” at work here? Clues and revelations await...