Rectify is my new all-time favorite TV drama. You haven?t heard of it? That?s understandable; it is a Sundance TV original series. But the first two seasons (of three so far) are streaming on Netflix. A fourth and final season is in the works. Lest you think I shift...
?Not our fault?simply the way things work.? Perhaps your eyes glaze over when someone tries to explain the economics that lead to the housing bubble and Great Recession. It is indeed complicated, but The Big Short is an interesting way to try to understand it. It also...
?As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe... keep breathing.? Alejandro G. I??rritu?s The Revenant fits all the qualifications of a big film: star-caliber acting from Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, and others; astounding cinematography in gorgeous...
We have come to expect mind games from Charlie Kaufman. Anomalisa certainly falls into that category, but not for the reasons of his other film. The situation he portrays is very much tied to reality. It is the way it is presented that messes with our minds....
?It doesn?t matter what I wear. It?s what I dream. They?re Lili?s dreams.? The Danish Girl opens in Copenhagen in 1926. Einar and Gerda Wegener (Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander) are artists who are very happily married. Einar is a successful landscape painter,...
Early in Trumbo, as Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) leads his daughter Niki on her horse, she asks him, ?Are you a Communist?? He replies, ?I am.? ?Is that against the law?? ?It is not.? Dalton Trumbo was one of the best known of the ?Hollywood Ten,? a group of writers...
?Those memories?they?re things, aren?t they?? Memories can be the things that keep people together or tear them apart. In 45 Years, a couple about to celebrate a milestone anniversary suddenly have memories brought up that threaten their future happiness. Kate and...
We are sometimes amazed at the depth of horror that marks the Shoah. Son of Saul shows us again the inhumanity of the Holocaust in a very personal way. The film from Hungarian director L?szl? Nemes is already garnering Best Foreign Language Film honors from critics...
?I just wanted to give people a reason to believe.? In Don Verdean an archaeologist and dueling pastors seem to be trying to find ways to bolster people?s faith, but it all finally boils down to feeding their own egos. We have to keep in mind this is very broad satire...