When Ray Kinsella hears the whisper and begins plowing up his Iowa cornfield, I can start to feel the emotion building toward the sanctity of the baseball field. Too often, Field of Dreams is condemned as ?only a baseball movie? by some, when in fact, the beauty of the film transcends any single genre to…
Little Women is the seventh film version of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 film about four sisters, their love for each other and the men in their lives, and the way that each of them must “come of age” in their own way. Starring an ensemble cast of Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern,…
Imagine the pitch: Daniel Radcliffe and Jim Gaffigan are going to headline an animated movie (with Kenan Thompson, Meghan Trainor, and Adam Lambert) based on a hit toy series with direction and story by Prep & Landing animator Lino DiSalvo. You’re in, right? It’s going to be a runaway hit! With Playmobil the Movie, audiences…
Dark Waters might be the most terrifying film I’ve seen lately. It’s not shockingly horror-soaked like It Chapter Two but it’s deep dive into the capitalistic manipulation of a chemical company in West Virginia from the 1960s-2000s is disturbing. Thankfully, there are individuals like Robert Bilott who refuse to back down in the face of…
Jordan Peele stars as the Rod Serling of the latest iteration of the show Serling debuted in 1958, The Twilight Zone. Sharing stories of normalcy with twists of the abnormal (or supernatural), Peele leads the audience of the CBS All Access show to mind-warping situations that are more thought-provoking than intensely scary. While stars like…
The Golden Globes were a sadly terrible affair, with the exception of the tribute to Mr. Tom Hanks. But the inclusion of Roman Griffin Davis made me curious about what his role had looked like as Johannes “Jojo Rabbit” Betzler, a young boy obsessed with the Nazi party and particularly Adolph Hitler. In fact, Taika…
In Olympic Dreams, Jeremy Teicher directs his real-life wife and real-life Olympian Alexi Pappas opposite comedian Nick Kroll in a story about chasing your dream and finding something else instead. When we meet Pappas? cross-country skier Penelope, she?s anxiously leaving a message for her coach who hasn?t made the trip to the Olympic Village in…
There aren’t that many films aimed at families that are actually family-friendly these days. Playing with Fire proves to be one of the films that kids and adults can laugh with, and maybe even walk away feeling empowered by. Revolving around uptight fire jumper Supe (John Cena), who leads Mark (Keegan-Michael Key), Rodrigo (John Leguizamo),…
In the second and final season of Syfy’s Superman prequel Krypton, David S. Goyer’s created series finds Superman’s grandfather Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe) battling against the evil General Dru-Zod of Kandor (Colin Salmon). Seg-El isn’t alone though, because he has time-traveling Adam Strange (Shaun Sipos) and a host of other Kryptonites to rally. But there are…
HBO’s original season of Big Little Lies garnered so much attention – including winning Emmys and Golden Globes – that it was no shock that its all-star cast would be back for a second run. Created by David E. Kelley (Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Mr. Mercedes) from the book by Liane…
