In the 2005 crime thriller The Departed, Martin Scorsese moved A-list actors like Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, and Mark Wahlberg through the Best Adaptation script from William Monahan. A police officer infiltrates the gang of Irish Mob...
Unsung Hero is on the radar of Christian music fans because it's the background story of for King & Country as well as Rebecca St. James. Developed by Kingdom Story Company, the producers behind I Can Only Imagine, I Still Believe, and American Underdog (the...
Wonka, the prequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, weaves a magical story of delicious delights and the constant struggle between good and ... human greed. Timothée Chalamet, of dark, sandy Dune, plays the opposite here, a bright, energetic, wide-eyed,...
Based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, American Fiction puts Jeffrey Wright front and center as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a novelist-turned-professor who has been critically praised but popularly ignored. Ellison has always been righteously opposed to the...
In The Holdovers, Paul Giamatti plays classics professor Paul Hunham at Barton Academy, a preparatory school in New England for boys. The Vietnam War casts a shadow over the school, notably for cafeteria manager Mary Lamb (Da'Vine Joy Randolph), whose Barton graduate...
Buzz Bissinger worked as an investigative reporter, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his work tackling corruption in the Philadelphia court system. But his 1990 book Friday Night Lights is widely considered one of the best sportswriting pieces ever, and the cinematic...
In the sequel to the 2019 breakout hit Shazam! we see the Billy Batson-turned-Shazam hero (Zachary Levi) struggling with his relatively new-found powers and the scattering of his family due to age and changing priorities. He longs to retain his childhood but also...
Before Michael Keaton, Christian Bale, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Ben Affleck, or Robert Pattinson donned the cowl, before Tobey Maguire discovered great power webslinging through New York, before Hulk smashed the puny god in Avengers tower or Thanos snapped,...
I was skeptical of Champions at first, the English remake of a Spanish film about a basketball coach rehabbing his career after a drug-involved arrest that nets him community service as a coach for some adults with special needs. It's too easy to find stories like...