The Nun?is?the fifth film in The Conjuring?series, and a prequel to the action in James Wan’s first films. Here, a?grizzled old priest and a young novitiate nun travel to C?r?a Monastery in Romania in the middle of the twentieth century under Corin Hardy’s direction. After the success of his indie horror film?The Hallow, Hardy was…
The sixth installment of the?Mission Impossible?films, and the second directed and written by Christopher McQuarrie (Rogue Nation), arrived this weekend with a fat 98% Rotten Tomatoes ratings, the?Justice League-impacting Henry Cavill mustache, and the promise of more death-defying stunts by the ageless Tom Cruise. But haven’t we seen it all, already? Blame Lorne Balfe’s score,…
We tend to judge what we don’t know, as complicated as another culture or as simple as the neighbor across the street who we don’t know. But in the film Blindspotting, we have a startling look into the world of two lifelong friends, one black and one white, who have much to teach us about…
In?Crazy Rich Asians, the Warner Bros.’ film based on Kevin Kwan’s bestselling book, Constance Wu plays Rachel, a highly intelligent economics professor at New York University who accompanies her boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to his friend’s high society wedding in Singapore. While they’re there, Rachel discovers that Nick’s family is actually a huge financial…
James Silva (Mark Wahlberg) has seen it all as a U.S. Marine and a member of a black ops team known as Overwatch. As the film opens, the team takes down a Russian safehouse stateside and executes the inhabitants. Fastforwarding a year and a half later, the team ends up grinding at desk jobs until…
Based on Geoff Johns’?Aquaman?run in The New 52, DC’s?Throne of Atlantis?is a feature-length animated film that finds the Justice League facing off against threats from the deep that they have never seen before, only to be joined by the heir of the Earth and the Sea, Aquaman! Now, three years since it debuted, the film…
In the sixth season of CBS’ hit show about the famed British detective,?Elementary?takes the audience on a wild ride inside and outside of Sherlock Holmes’ (Jonny Lee Miller) brain. It’s a bumpy ride this season because Holmes is suffering from post-concussion symptoms, and his life with Watson (Lucy Liu) is complicated. Over six discs and…
Scorpion, for its four-season run on CBS, showed what it would be like if the nerds and geeks of?The Big Bang Theory?put their minds to work to save the world from unique, dangerous situations… over and over and over again. While the show is based on the life of genius Walter O’Brien (played here by…
In the third collection of PIXAR’s short films, following the 2007 and 2012 editions, a delightful menagerie of thirteen short films is available for audiences to watch at their leisure. Some of them are stellar packages of morals and vision; others are more for simple entertainment. Here are my five favorites: “Piper” may be my…
In the mid-1980s, Lee David Zlotoff wrote for?Hill Street Blues?and later produced?Remington Steele; he even directed?The Spitfire Grill. But his greatest contribution to modern media was the creation of?MacGuyver, the story of a troubleshooter for the Phoenix Foundation (and also an agent of a shadowy branch of the U.S. government). MacGuyver regularly found himself in…
