Ten years ago, writer/director Ned Benson made a film—actually three films—called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, starring Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, that attempted to explore the inner workings of […]
My first experience with Batman was on television in 1966. The show blended live action with cartoonish settings and hammy acting. It never occurred to me as a 6-year-old that […]
Seemingly determined never to repeat himself, writer/director Goran Stolevski (You Won’t Be Alone, Of An Age) returns to his homeland of Macedonia to tell the tale of a group of […]
Another month has gone by, so it must be time for a new Nicolas Cage movie. This time around, he can be found in the Quiet Place ripoff Arcadian, which […]
It’s unfortunate that in a couple weeks, a far better deadly-spider movie called Infested is coming out, but that because it’s in a foreign language and being released after this […]
Filmmaker Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Men, Annihilation) always finds a way to tell futuristic or fantastical stories like no other. But with his latest, Civil War, aspects of the story […]
There’s an awful lot of screaming (maybe too much) in director/co-writer Arkasha Stevenson’s prequel workThe First Omen—and perhaps the mythology is overly twisty and complicated so it can line up […]
Dev Patel has been one of my favorite actors to watch since he splashed onto the scene in Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. Since then he has shown such a range as both […]
Ten years ago, writer/director Ned Benson pieced together three films called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, an ambitious relationship drama with two of the films showing a couple’s experiences from each […]
This weird little based-on-a-true-story tale about an anonymous letter writer who favors vulgar language primarily works so well because of its beyond-talented leads, Olivia Colman as Edith Swan, the letter […]
For Americans, the BBC’s interview with Prince Andrew—assuming it even registered with many—was something of a footnote in the story of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But in the UK, […]
Like many, I first remember taking notice of actor Christina Jackson on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire as Maybelle, the daughter of Chalky White (the late Michael K. Williams). She has starred in other […]