Maddy (Amandla Stenberg) can’t go outside. It’s not some kind of violent, Leatherface/Misery?mashup. Her mother just won’t let her, because her mother says her extreme immuno-deficiency disease prevents her from exploring the outside world without fear. When Olly Bright (Nick Robinson) moves in next door, a slow-burning relationship begins to build and Maddy’s safety within…
When I first talked to Remi Adeleke, he was just days away from his first box office action film,?Transformers: Last Knight. Having survived the Bronx as a young man, and the Navy Seals as a young adult, monstrous CGI robots were hardly enough to intimidate him. But to understand who Adeleke was, and to marvel…
We’re not alone. We’re never alone. Have faith.– The Novice Forced to travel on a holy pilgrimage from the only home he’s ever known, The Novice (Tom Holland,?Spiderman: Homecoming) leaves his Irish Catholic monastery with a few other priests to deliver a relic to Rome for the efforts of the Crusade. Along with the Mute…
Guy Ritchie famously reinvented Arthur Conan Doyle’s?Sherlock Holmes?with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, while also updating?The Man from U.N.C.L.E.?(with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer). But I fear that he has gone too far in the tearing down of the Arthurian legend, rebuilding it in his own?Rocknrolla?image. Instead of just tweaking the?style?of King Arthur, Ritchie…
Christopher Plummer is quite dapper as exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II, under investigation by the Nazi Reich’s Stefan Brandt (Jai Courtney). Brandt has his own disgraces to deal with – having been forced into this ‘undercover’ assignment. But instead of uncovering who the British spy is in the Wihelm estate, he falls for a maid, Mieke…
Jane/Alice (Jaime Alexander) explodes out of a CIA interrogation as the second season of NBC’s hit series begins, and the NSA’s Nas Kamal (Archie Punjabi, The Good Wife) recruits Kurt Weller’s (Sullivan Stapleton, Strike Back)?team to capture her and help her infiltrate the terrorist cell called Sandstorm. Will the team be able to trust Jane?…
Have you ever had a conversation with someone and knew they weren’t really listening? Better yet, was it someone who you knew you should be talking to about something important? In?The Dinner, four people, two couples, are talking but no one is really engaging the others in meaningful dialogue. In Oren Moverman’s adaptation of the…
Miranda Otto may be best known for her role as Eowyn in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson?s The Lord of the Rings cinematic masterpiece. But this year, Otto has starred in FOX?s reboot, 24: Legacy, and the upcoming horror prequel, Annabelle: Creation. Under the direction of Lights Out creator David Sandberg, Otto…
Ghost in the Shell?has a lot to say (and show) us in the beautiful genre that is science fiction. Here, where reality is obviously suspended, we stand a chance of hearing about what it means to be human when our defenses are lower – we stop worrying about this story being about us, until it…
Theodore Melfi wrote?St. Vincent (which starred Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy) and?Hidden Figures (for which he received nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay). But this year, he tackled his oldest stars to date, as Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin headlined the cinematic adaptation of his screenplay?Going in Style. Think?Grumpy Old Men?meets?Night…
