One of the year’s most quietly devastating performances can be found in Terence Davies’ immaculately rendered portrait of poet Emily Dickinson. […]
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“I want to talk to you about America,” says Channing Tatum’s Mark Schultz dispassionately to an unenthusiastic auditorium of elementary schoolers […]
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The premise of Jumanji, a holiday hit 22 Christmases ago, was that a board game brought jungle animals into the real […]
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Dennis Quaid has been in the movie business since debuting as an uncredited bellhop in 1975’s Crazy Mama, and he’s made […]
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There was a comforting sense of deja vu in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which kicked off a new trilogy by […]
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“I’ve hit rock bottom.” Matthew Broderick could often be found sitting on the ground, holding his head and repeating this mantra […]
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From the early ‘80s to the mid ‘90s, John Hughes wrote about two dozen films, eight of which he also directed, […]
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Auteur theory is debatable, but it’s a prominent feature of film theory with a cache of connotations. In the opening scenes […]
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Darkest Hour is about a controversial leader’s steadfast refusal to engage in peace talks in favor of going to war. Not […]
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Everyone knows that Santa Claus sees who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, and while that’s creepy enough, there’s some comfort […]
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Lapsed Catholic though he is, Martin McDonagh, the Irish (by way of London) playwright-turned-filmmaker loves to explore the interconnected themes of […]
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Like many fairy tales, The Shape of Water is a fantastical story about a lonely person who finds fulfillment through interaction […]
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