Religion, family, politics, culture, life-threatening illness, forbidden romance (and so many other things) get the once-over in comedian Kumail Nanjiani’s The Big Sick, his real-life story that is as heart-breaking as it is funny, and preposterous as it is authentic. Were it not ...
Want to see something beautiful? Inspiring? Want to also bawl your eyes out until they turn permanently red and you become vegetarian? Okja is the movie for you. I’ve just seen it and I can’t really talk. The lump in the throat is too big. I shouldn’t even be typing at the keyboard ...
If there has ever been a more exhausting exercise in wasted effort than writing about a Transformers film, I don’t know what it could be. Regardless of anything you read here, and no matter the amount of shade thrown by any of the hundreds of publications, websites, forums ...
A beautiful princess-in-waiting. A bullied teen ready to explore his angst. And a magical box with transportation powers to Imperial China. Enter the Warrior’s Gate is a fish out of water narrative on TWO fronts, cleverly tackling both the ancient and modern world in its running ...
The Book of Henry is an ambitious, heart-tugging, and well-intentioned tale about the value of family and the lengths to which we are willing to go for our children. It stars Naomi Watts as a single mother struggling to raise her two young boys, one of whom is a genius ...
Boy, does Brian Cox ever ham it up in the wartime bio-drama Churchill! For that matter, so does everyone else involved, from director Jonathan Teplitzky, who is never able to put the brakes on Cox’s Shakespeareian histrionics, to first-time screenwriter Alex von Tunzelmann, whose ...
It begins with a line graph. Close-up. In your face. Two lines snaking their way up, up, up into the far reaches of the black space. The red graph tracks the climbing human population and the oil production is in blue. And then the blue line drops. Dramatically. Not too ...
Baywatch director Seth Gordon and his team of six(!) screenwriters had only two possible routes to take with their high-profile big screen adaptation of the hit ‘90s TV show: serious, or wink-wink ...
A wall. A divider used for shelter, protection, or privacy. A barrier that separates good from evil, life from death, and secrets from the known. It’s a metaphor director Doug Liman uses to great effect in The Wall, a film that takes place in late 2007 during the waning months of the ...
As parents, it is our job to protect our children at all costs, right? How far would your “Mama Bear” instinct take you in safeguarding your child’s well-being? Before you answer, you must watch The Dinner. What you witness in Oren Moverman’s adaptation of the best-selling ...
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