In the cinematic adaptation of Australian author Jane Harper's mystery The Dry, Eric Bana's federal agent Aaron Falk returns to his village of Kiewarra, having left as a teenager under a cloud of mystery. He's returned for the funeral of his childhood best friend, who...
In a year when the world has spent months locked in and socially distanced, a new thriller plays on our isolation and self-doubt. In Joe Wright's Netflix thriller The Woman in the Window, Amy Adams plays Dr. Anna Fox, a child psychologist suffering from agoraphobia....
During World War II, FDR recognizes that the Allies need help, so the Justice Society of America is assembled: Black Canary, Hawkman, Hourman, Flash, and Wonder Woman, along with the military's Colonel Steve Trevor. Voiced by the likes of Stana Katic and Matt Bomer,...
Liam Neeson has made a career (maybe even a second career) out of pursuing justice, with his distinct set of skills: a gravelly voice, a well-timed punch, and a knowledge of various firearms. In The Marksman, he's Jim Hanson, Vietnam veteran and United States Marine...
When we meet Hutch Mansell, he's in a police station, beat up and under suspicion. This couldn't be more surprising because Mansell is an everyday guy. He shows up for work, shows up for his family, runs through his routine everyday, like clockwork. But when two...
In Cosmic Sin, Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo know that bad news is headed toward humanity so they head to space to save the world. It's not Armageddon; it's more like if Battlestar Galactica, Pacific Rim, and a zombie movie of your choice got mixed up in a bowl and...
Mohamedou Ould Salahi was held from 2002 to 2016 in the Guant?namo Bay detention camp off of Cuba. As a result of the 9/11 attacks, the United States government launched the War on Terror, with Salahi swept up due to his relationships with known terrorists. Without...
The Last Vermeer tells the story of how a former Dutch Resistance fighter-turned-investigator, Claes Bang's Joseph Pillar, investigates painter and art dealer Han van Meegeren (Guy Pearce), who he believes aided the Nazis during World War II. In the novel by Jonathan...
As a child of the 1980s and 1990s, Nicholas Jarecki loved blockbusters. Back to the Future, Top Gun. As he got older, he watched old videotapes of Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico, studying the work of Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson, and later Christopher...