In Theaters and Digital

Lord Marmion of Fontenaye would be proud.  His quote from Sir Walter Scott's long romantic poem about tangled webs woven in the act of deception fits perfectly here with Shannon Alexander's drug-dealing The Misguided. ...

Maze Runner: The Death Cure opens with an exciting action sequence that seems to set the tone for what’s to come in the third and final(?) installment of the Maze Runner trilogy. It is an over-the-top, Mad-Max-inspired chase sequence involving our gallant hero Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) ...

Think you’ve seen Nicolas Cage unhinged in a movie before?  Think again. A young mother parks her SUV on some railroad tracks.  Her child is in the backseat.  She gets out of the car as the crossing guard comes down.  A train is coming. And she, making sure the child ...

If there is anything that growing up on my father’s steady diet of b-movie westerns taught me – and I’m talking every Sunday he’d sit and watch (and watch again) the same recycled footage of horseback riders passing the same big rock on the same dusty path in a completely ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is as strangely intoxicating as its title is clumsy. The title refers to Daniel Day-Lewis’s fashion designer character who, unbeknownst to his noble clientele, secretly sews hidden messages into the folds of his creations. The intoxication  ...

It will take you no less than five minutes to get drawn into the mesmerizing debut feature film from 22-year-old Quinn Shephard, the writer/director/producer/editor and star of Blame.  I kid you not.  She’s a magnificent creature behind and in front of the camera, spouting  ...

Certain to cloud the legacy of Ridley Scott’s telling of the Getty kidnapping in All the Money in the World is the reality that it will always be remembered by the nearly inconceivable fact that just mere weeks before the film’s scheduled release, all of Kevin Spacey’s scenes were  ...

Mesmerizing is the word that comes to mind.  It is my initial response to the events and questions surrounding the events in The Strange Ones, a film that just last week was exclusive solely to DirecTV.  It now, thanks to a distribution deal from Vertical Entertainment and ...

The uncertainty, danger, and vulnerability of life on the wide-open plains of late 18th-century America is summed up perfectly by Rosamond Pike’s character, Rosalie when she says, “I sometimes envy the finality of death. The certainty.” She’s a prominent character in Scott ...

Check your line. Especially when you are dealing with gambling addicts. That’s one of the lessons to be learned while playing Molly’s Game. Molly’s Game begins with a masterfully composed sequence of quick edits and even-paced, unemotional narration from Jessica Chastain, who ...