Review: Ron Howard Dives into the Harrowing Rescue of a Thai Soccer Team in Thirteen Lives
On certain rare occasions when a filmmaker adapts a book or play and essentially films everything in that source material,…
Review: A Studio Mogul’s Career, Life and Influence Seems Endless (and Endlessly Impressive) in Laddie
Alan Ladd Jr. was born into show business, as a certain percentage of those who work in the film industry…
Review: A Conservative’s Memoir Clashes with a Liberal’s Filmmaking in Confused, Superficially Emotional Hillbilly Elegy
I’m not here to judge the best-selling memoir of J.D. Vance or his conservative politics the way others seem to…
Review: Veteran Storyteller Ron Howard Recounts Life After Wildfires in Rebuilding Paradise
I can’t think of a film—documentary or otherwise—with a more horrifying opening few minutes than the Ron Howard-directed documentary Rebuilding…
Review: Filmmaker Ron Howard Humanizes a Superstar in Pavarotti
Ron Howard is at a point in his career (and probably has been for some time) where he can essentially…
Review: Solo Fits Comfortably into an Ever-Expanding Star Wars Universe
The key to watching any of these “Star Wars Stories”—Rogue One a couple years ago, and now Solo, the tale…
