The combination of Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen (acting for the first time together in the film) seems like a fool-proof combination, especially in the hands of director Bill Condon (who has […]
In the history books, the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program will also be known by its simpler and far more loaded name: torture. The ill-advised program was created in the wake of […]
We’ve gotten to the point where I just trust director James Mangold to get it right—whatever the subject matter of one of his films, he’ll find a way to tell the story […]
Sometimes a movie just has to be really fun and sharp to get my attention. It doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel or break the mold; it just has to be a […]
There are major life events all of us are familiar with, whether or not we’ve experienced them for ourselves. A wedding or the birth of a child. The death of a loved […]
If you’re making an independent film, the chances of it also being a Christmas movie are probably fairly slim. Filmmaking is hard enough as it is; only the truly bold add a […]
Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is used to working with subjects of a certain scale. Her 2012 documentary Queen of Versailles chronicles the building of what would be the country’s largest residential estate and […]
Disney Plus finally launched today, and there’s lots of buzz about the selection of Marvel movies and shows, and the excitement of Disney finally “unlocking the vault” and letting their classic movies […]
While I certainly have many wonderful things to say about Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 musical extravaganza of the same name, my heart will always belong to director/co-writer John Huston’s 1952 version of Moulin […]
One thing you can always count on from the films of director Roland Emmerich is scale. Sure, there will also likely be explosions and a giant cast, but the man never skimps […]
I sometimes wonder if, at some point down the road, we’ll run out of subjects on which to make documentaries. Surely, somewhere along the line, we’ll have made a film about everything. There’s […]
If the idea of yet another film about the devastatingly rampant child sex abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic church sounds about as enticing as a root canal, consider the fact that this […]
