Folks, forget about the latest horror movie scaring the pants off of viewers in the next theater over. The real shock is coming from I Am Not Your Negro, the provocative new documentary from filmmaker Raoul Peck that is as incendiary and discomforting as its ...
A girl watches a video. A girl receives a phone call. A girl answers. A girl is told of seven days to live. A girl investigates. A girl knows not why. A girl becomes a no one. Jaqen H'ghar, you are so right. With no Naomi Watts and no David Dorfman to turn to, The Ring mythos ...
Gold contains all the ingredients to be a powerful cautionary tale about the true nature of man: there’s the always intriguing Matthew McConaughey with a combed-over balding head and a gut so big it barely hides his tightie whities; there’s a classic adventure story about ...
I didn’t really want to cover this release; I didn’t really want to sit through the hyper-realized gobbledygook that has plagued this series for the last three entries. Hell, it isn’t very hard to suggest that incoherence has largely dominated ALL of the film adaptations of this ...
Keep that foot on the gas. Apparently, Vin Diesel has enough machismo left in the tank to take lead position in yet another revved-up and frenetic franchise. Xander Cage, extreme sports hero and sometimes government spy (last seen in 2002), has returned to motorcycle surf ...
With the tragic events of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing seared deeply into our psyche, questions of whether we are ready for a film about the tragedy swirl around the release of Patriots Day, a new film directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg ...
It’s only appropriate that Hidden Figures is the first movie to tell the unbelievable but true story of a trio of brilliant women who – along with other NASA-employed black female mathematicians – helped America win the space race against the Soviet Union in the 1960s. After all, ...
Graceful and seductively beguiling, Mike Mills’ intimate portrait of five people living in 1979 Santa Barbara is one of the year’s most pleasant surprises ...
The first thing to know about the Denzel Washington-acted-and-directed Fences is that it is a direct stage-to-screen adaptation of one of August Wilson’s ten The American Century Cycle Pittsburgh-based plays that focused on the African-American experience. Each play was ...
Filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan follows up the success of his two previous directorial efforts, You Can Count on Me (2000) and Margaret (2011), with Manchester by the Sea, a film that knocked ‘em dead at this year’s Sundance and promises equal praise as it releases wide around ...
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