It didn’t surprise me in the slightest to find out that the Scottish film Whisky Galore! was, in fact, a remake of a 1949 Ealing Studios work (which in turn […]

One of the last lines of dialogue uttered by a human in the fifth and allegedly “final” installment (which is nonsense, since this film sets up a new one just […]

  So, let’s get this out of the way. This review contains heavy spoilers. If you haven’t finished the season yet, you may want to read this later. Last week’s […]

I’ll give actor Dan Stevens credit: after leaving the comfort of “Downton Abbey,” he’s done everything in his power to not only shake the image of simply being the safe, […]

Imagine if the couple in Once had ended up together, gotten married, and after about 10 years together, the spark that brought them together was in danger of going out. […]

This is a film about escalation, about small moments becoming larger ones, about pleasant conversation becoming hostile, and in a not insignificant way, it’s about the powerless overtaking the powerful, […]

Writer-director Brett Haley (along with his co-writer Marc Basch) make gentle films about a tough subject that a great many films are afraid to tackle—getting older. Their previous collaboration, I’ll […]

More than one person has suggested that critics has their knives sharpened in anticipation of the recent release of the Baywatch movie, and while I’ve seen absolutely no proof of […]

Beginning with 2009’s Notorious (about The Notorious B.I.G.) and continuing in 2015’s Straight Outta Compton (a biopic about N.W.A), the movie world has slowly been building a unusual type of […]

I liked every documentary I’ve ever seen directed by Steve James, from his epic-length, groundbreaking Hoop Dreams to his recent Roger Ebert biography, Life Itself. But not even in his […]

Wicker Park may be continuing its inevitable path towards total gentrification, but some residents are trying their very best to keep eccentricity alive in the neighborhood. The latest example of […]

When it premiered in 2013, Orange is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan was interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air about the series based on Piper Kerman’s memoir of serving time in […]