The Big Sick is a warm-hearted, overlong, often funny, and tonefully odd dramedy—which is to…
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It all began in 1941, when Harvard psychologist William Moulton Marston created a voluptuous…
It’s 2002, Sacramento, California, where we meet Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson, a headstrong young woman…
I wish the news were better for theatrical films. Unfortunately, what we’re seeing these days…
“As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe … keep…
George Clooney plays clueless megastar Baird Whitlock in Hail, Caesar! THE COEN BROTHERS are auteur…
In the last 30 years, I can think of three major sequels that have been…
Jonah Hill and James Franco in True Story. Based on the real account of a…
Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac star in A Most Violent Year. Sometimes directors come out…
The life of the vampire is not all it’s cracked up to be. What We…
American Sniper Few motion pictures deliver the punch of American Sniper, a powerful tribute to…
Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons in Whiplash. Welcome to New York’s fictional Shaffer Conservatory, a…
Alejandro G. Iñárritu offers this uncharted dark comedy of art imitating life, with a fading…
JOAQUIN PHOENIX as Larry “Doc” Sportello and BENICIO DEL TORO as Sauncho Smilax in Inherent…
Ben Affleck in Gone Girl. Author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn and director David Fincher steer…