Ten years ago, R.J. Palacio and her toddler son encountered a little girl with a cranial facial difference. The author asked herself what it was like for the little girl to encounter a world that stopped and stared, that couldn't imagine how amazing she was because...
From 2001 to 2004, Simon Baker (The Mentalist) starred in The Guardian, as a corporate lawyer convicted of drug abuse who finds himself assigned to the Legal Services office of Pittsburgh. He's cutthroat and thorough as a businessman, but when he finds himself...
In Hedgehogs, a brash young hedgehog named Bobby (Anthony Padilla) loses his memory of who he is and what he is, makes friends with a bird named Hubert (Jon Heder), and battles a human (Chevy Chase) intent on eradicating animals. Originally in Chinese, the film is...
R.J. Palacio's novel,?Wonder, captivated young people and their parents, but Stephen Chbosky's cinematic adaptation was a sensation that caused theaters to add showings as screenings sold out. Centered around the story of Auggie (Jacob Tremblay), a young man...
Daddy's Home took two disparate actors and dropped them in the middle of a battle over the hearts of two young children. It had poignant moments and various comedic hijinks. It worked on some levels because of the goofiness of the first actor, Will Ferrell, and the...
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight?takes Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola's story of the same name, unofficially the first DC Elseworlds story printed, and transforms it into an R-rated animated feature film that pits Batman against Jack the Ripper. With Bruce Greenwood as...
In an opening scene that is shocking for both its lack of humanity and its restraint, Rosalie Quaid (Rosalind Pike) witnesses the murder of her husband and children at the hands of a Comanche raiding party in 1892. A few days later, Quaid is discovered by Captain Joe...
In George Clooney's?Suburbicon, things are broken. The focus of the media attention in this 1959 paradise of picket fences and?Stepford Wives?values is the arrival of the first African-American family, the Mayers, who quietly move in across from Gardner Lodge (Matt...
In Geostorm,?Clive Butler stars as Jake Lawson, the architect behind a revolutionary process that controls the weather via satellite called "Dutch Boy." Thanks to an opening voiceover by Lawson's daughter, we know that weather is out of control but that Lawson's Dutch...