Woman Incarcerated: Strands of Hope enters a Florida jail with every opportunity to become another well-meaning documentary about rehabilitation, redemption, and second chances. Those phrases have been polished smooth by  ...

There is something inherently suspicious about people who are too nice. Not kind, necessarily, but agreeable in that frictionless, smiling way that suggests either a pyramid scheme or something much worse. Peter Stylianou’s The  ...

Holy shit, this might just be my favorite interpretation of Macbeth. Shakespeare’s tragedy has survived castles, battlefields, boardrooms, and countless high-school English classrooms, but it feels unexpectedly at home  ...

Prepare to be emotionally wrecked. Heart of the Beast got past all the armor I have built from watching these types of man’s-best-friend movies. I knew exactly what David Ayer was doing. I could see the emotional pressure points  ...

Season One of The Mandalorian hits the ground running thanks to the passion behind the scenes from creator Jon Favreau and a roster of directors who clearly understand what makes Star Wars work. Rather than burying ...

A Marble in the Jar begins with the pursuit of something enormous: a World Title. Professional surfer Tatiana Weston-Webb has spent her life chasing that impossible combination of preparation, instinct, timing, and one  ...

Hollywood has never seemed particularly interested in the American Revolution. We’ve stormed Normandy approximately 47,000 times, fought Vietnam from every conceivable angle, and watched Rome fall often enough ...

Christmas cheer gets seriously twisted in Christmas at the Kringles, the new horror-comedy from Briarcliff Entertainment—and the first trailer and poster have arrived! ...