Everyone’s a winner at this Game Night
Hollywood multi-hyphenate John Francis Daley might not be the first name that springs to mind when people talk about the breakout stars from... Continue Reading
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Meditation Park is a feast for the soul
Meditation Park is a very quiet film, but like its long-suffering protagonist, Maria (played by legendary Chinese actress Pei-Pei Cheng), th... Continue Reading
The Disaster Artist is a great movie about a bad one
Hollywood has been obsessed with movies about movies since the silent era, and though there is always the concern that a navel gazing Tinsel... Continue Reading
Timely yet flawed The Post needs a rewrite
On paper, The Post must have looked like a sure thing. A juicy, hugely topical, historical drama celebrating the heroic efforts of a group o... Continue Reading
Kill Bill meets Taken in bloody good Mrs. K
Oscar-winning writer-director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, The Hateful Eight) built his reputation on culturally appropriating everythin... Continue Reading
The Florida Project milks magic from mayhem
When it comes to truly edgy underground filmmakers, it’s hard to top writer-director Sean Baker. His 2012 film Starlet profiled the un... Continue Reading
Murder, mystery and movie stars align on Orient Express
I know I’m totally dating myself by even mentioning it, but I’ve always thought there was something terribly romantic about read... Continue Reading
Daddy’s Home 2 is Godfather: Part II of comedy sequels
Generally speaking, sequels to big, mainstream, Hollywood comedies rarely get better as the series continues. Especially when they add new c... Continue Reading
Oldman shines bright in Oscar-winning Darkest Hour
Although Darkest Hour managed to snag an impressive six Oscar nominations this year – including a surprise Best Picture nod – th... Continue Reading
Fish meets girl in Oscar bait The Shape of Water
Whether it takes home the Best Picture prize at the Academy Awards tomorrow night or not, Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-nominated The Sha... Continue Reading
Singing nuns and Whitney take the stage in Holy Camp!
Singing nuns and musicals have gone together like communion wafers and wine since Maria first urged us to climb every mountain and ford ever... Continue Reading
Geostorm is perfect storm of disaster movie clichés
Normally at this time of year the IFE landscape tends to be dominated by two types of films. That first flush of serious award season conten... Continue Reading
Battle of the Sexes is a timely overhead smash
Real-life husband and wife Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine, Ruby Sparks) have been co-directing music videos, docume... Continue Reading
Three Billboards is powerhouse drama writ large
This year’s Academy Award nominations are still a couple of weeks away but after taking home awards for Best Picture – Drama, Be... Continue Reading
Hillbilly hilarity rules the race track in Logan Lucky
When it comes to heist movies, it’s hard to top writer-director Steven Soderbergh. For while he’ll probably always be known as t... Continue Reading
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