Soulful sci-fi drama Arrival reinvents alien invasion epic
La La Land and Moonlight may have dominated most of the pre-Oscar chatter – and thanks to last week’s bizarro Best Picture envel... Continue Reading
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Provocative Jackie is not your grandparent’s biopic
Former First Lady Jackie Kennedy has been portrayed onscreen over the years by everyone from a young Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jaclyn Smith ... Continue Reading
Post-Arab Spring drama Hedi will rip your heart out
Even if you know next to nothing about Tunisia’s long, complicated history of colonization and dictatorial rule leading up to the game... Continue Reading
Trippy Doctor Strange will blow your mind
Benedict Cumberbatch has played everything from enigmatic Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing (The Imitation Game) to Sherlock Holmes (TV’s... Continue Reading
The Girl on the Train is trashy-good inflight fun
Anyone who’s ever picked up a trashy paperback at an airport gift store, read it front-to-back inflight and then abandoned it in their... Continue Reading
Queen of Katwe is The Karate Kid of chess films
Since bursting onto the scene with her Academy Award nominated feature debut Salaam Bombay! in 1988, Indian writer-director Mira Nair has ha... Continue Reading
Panamerican Machinery could not be more timely
In news that will surely rattle border wall boosters to the core, the Mexicans have officially invaded Hollywood. Not only have Mexican-born... Continue Reading
Retro romp Bridget Jones’s Baby really delivers
When last we left Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) in 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, everyone’s favorite “single... Continue Reading
Tim Burton returns to form with Miss Peregrine
His insanely over-produced Alice in Wonderland films aside, director-producer Tim Burton (Batman, Ed Wood) has a better batting average than... Continue Reading
Streep hits high note as Florence Foster Jenkins
With more than 60 directing credits to his name in just about every genre imaginable, Oscar-nominated director Stephen Frears (The Queen) is... Continue Reading
Disney breathes new fire into Pete’s Dragon remake
When I first heard that Disney was remaking 1977’s live-action/animated hybrid Pete’s Dragon, I was pretty skeptical, especially... Continue Reading
Old Hollywood shimmers in Café Society
It’s kind of ironic that the man who once famously opined that the only cultural advantage of living in Los Angeles is that “you... Continue Reading
Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe is trip worth taking
Being a massive film geek and an even bigger fan of epic adventure yarns set in cool, exotic locales, I’ve been looking for something ... Continue Reading
Captain Fantastic sticks it to the man in style
Since premiering to rave reviews at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Captain Fantastic, writer-director Matt Ross’s (28 Hotel... Continue Reading
Turgid Tarzan turkey is totally bananas
Sherlock Holmes might hold the record for the most portrayed literary human character in TV and film and Dracula might be the most portrayed... Continue Reading
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