Screenwriter Nick Hornby’s Brooklyn is, on its surface, the epitome of a classic immigrant’s tale. The cinematic roadside is littered with wonderful stories of desperate yet brave young men who leave...

There are few things more unforgettable and terrifying in the cinematic annuals than Emil Jannings as Mephisto in F. W. Murnau's Faust . Who? That's your first response. I know, I know. Unfortunately,...

The new sports movie, My All American , from Hoosiers and Rudy writer Angelo Pizzo has its heart in the right place. After all, it’s a wholesome, christian-backed, PG-rated, inspirational tale about a...

It's an unforgivable shame that such an important event in world history as the women’s suffrage campaign has received so little attention from TV and Hollywood. So little in fact, that there’s never...

As if he were preaching to the choir with his latest film, director David Gordon Green tells us in Our Brand is Crisis that politics is a dirty business. And with a timely subject matter so ripe for s...

There’s a somber irony that permeates nearly every frame of Steve Jobs , Danny Boyle’s new film about the famed Apple Computer co-founder (Michael Fassbender) and innovator of so many of the precious...

There’s a lot to like in Steven Spielberg’s Cold War-era spy thriller Bridge of Spies : reliving memories of those old “duck and cover” educational films; fedora-clad G-men tracking shadowy figures wh...

Don’t look now but there’s yet another film currently playing in theaters with a strong central character which isn’t played by a human. Everest Director Baltasar Kormákur’s mountain carried that film...

Amongst the many memorable moments that occur during director Ridley Scott’s new film The Martian , is one particularly moving episode that perfectly illustrates that the director “gets it” and that h...

Writer/director Nancy Meyers ( The Parent Trap, Something’s Gotta Give ) takes on the American generation gap and mixes in clichéd beats of gender role reversal in her latest called The Intern , a fil...

Everest , the new film that recounts the tragic true-life events surrounding the 1996 attempt by several groups of climbers to scale the world’s tallest mountain, has an inherent complication. One tha...

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, 90 Minutes in Heaven tells the miraculous story of Don Piper (Hayden Christensen), a church pastor who died January 18, 1989 in a horrific automobile...

Having suffered a significant stumble with last year’s subterranean found-footage thriller As Above/So Below , the brother filmmaking team of John Erick and Drew Dowdle found themselves searching for...

With a title even less appealing than its premise is original, American Ultra looks to mash together the stoner comedy with the sleeper cell thriller… as if the Bourne Identity were rewritten to star...

The story being told in F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton is as relevant today as it was a generation ago when five young men turned brutally honest rhymes, hardcore beats, and the frustration of...