Acclaimed director Jennifer Kent has followed up international hit horror film “The Babadook” with something even more unsettling. “The Nightingale” takes the viewer deep into the Tasmanian Bush, in Colonial Australia. The controversial film premiered to accolades at the Venice Film Festival in 2018 but prompted walkouts during its Sydney, Australia premiere. “The Nightingale” depicts brutal scenes of […]
This was the movie Shia LeBeouf was most recently arrested, drunk in the street of Atlanta. It’s also the film, co-star Dakota Johnson says changed his life. The Peanut Butter Falcon has an odd name but it’s folksy delivery makes it quite often a charming film despite it’s raggedy appearance. A story of friendship in
Them That Follow is not a horror movie, but you wouldn’t know that from the marketing and especially the poster which features a snake wrapped about lead actress Alice Englert neck. To the films credit, the subject matter is quite horrific. Religious fanaticism set in the backwoods of the Appalachian Mountains, finds an all-star cast
Ah, the struggle of making it in life after having two kids before age 18 and serving a jail sentence, but also nursing a burning desire to make it big in country music when you live in Scotland. A tall order! Rose (Buckley) is just such a girl who seems not to have much, but is richly
It’s probably not a coincidence that opening sequence shots in “Ophelia” resemble Kings Landing from “Game of Thrones”. The Disney like voice over in the prologue, “the story you don’t know”, quickly dispels the association that this will be anything as riveting as HBO’s bloodthirsty shock-value series. Lisa Klein’s novel might borrow names from Shakespeare,
It’s a generational thing as all three “Shaft” men come together in the third installment of the movie series that dates back to the ’70s. Samuel L. Jackson who has built a career on playing Shaft-type characters was the optimal choice to bring the foul-mouthed detective back to the big screen in 2000. “Barbershop” director
Emma Thompson’s Miranda Priestly-like performance is what you’ll buy a ticket to see, but Mindy Kaling’s razor-sharp script is what gives you your money’s worth. One of the breakout films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, one that caused a bidding war, “Late Night” is another film with dual female leads (which is becoming a wonderfully
Filmmaker Tate Taylor reunites with his award winning actresses Octavia Spencer (“The Shape of Water”) and Allison Janney (“I Tonya”) following their blockbuster collaboration on “The Help” back in 2011. “Ma” is something entirely different for everyone involved, especially Spencer nay-sayers who thought the Oscar winner wouldn’t have a career following Minny Jackson. The three
Olivia Wilde’s directorial feature debut could have easily been the gender-flipped version of “Superbad” with lame jokes and crude humor. However written by four females who understand what teenage comedies have been missing, inject “Booksmart” with wit, savvy, and quotable dialogue. As an actress Wilde has been hit or miss when it comes to comedy,
Television and documentary screenwriter Ben Elton fills in the gaps of William Shakespeare’s later life with drama and intrigue. His first acting and directing gig since “Murder on the Orient Express,” Kenneth Branagh is nearly unrecognizable as the famous poet and playwright. Together Elton and Branagh present a unique dive into the lesser-known facets of