Black Butterfly?is a tense whodunit that refuses to give us too much, and keeps us spinning in circles through the final, final twist. Our lens is the viewpoint of Antonio Banderas’ writer, Paul Lopez, whose wife goes missing years prior to the main action. Holed up in a cabin he now feels the need to…
Bill Randa (John Goodman) assembles a crack team of explorers in his quest to justify expenditures for his company, Monarch, in the days after Vietnam. With photojournalist Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), tracker James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston), soldier Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson), and geologist Houston Brooke (Corey Hawkins), Randa goes looking for a way to…
In Lionsgate’s wild bullet party, Justine (Brie Larson) facilitates the sale of weapons from an IRA buyer, Chris (Cilian Murphy), and the South African seller, Vernon (Sharlto Copley), in Boston warehouse in the 1970s. But like every criminal enterprise (ever?) things go south when complications occur. Will anyone make it out of the warehouse alive?…
Flik is an inventor – an individualist – who tries to do things on his own. As?A Bug’s Life?begins, he gets the rest of the ant population in serious trouble with the grasshopper leader, Hopper, by accidentally destroying the homage they are expected to provide. But before he finds himself ostracized on the outside of…
Whether you are a fan of the French original, the 1990s animated version, or the Dan Stevens/Emma Watson live-action remake,?Beauty & the Beast?has a narrative that reminds us of the cost of inhospitality. As the story begins, we find a cold-hearted prince refusing sanctuary to an old beggar woman (or so he thinks) as she…
Tom and Jerry are fiendishly mischievous frenemies who have tormenting each other and entertaining audiences for years. They’ve done their own thing, and entered the worlds of such notables like?Sherlock Holmes,?The Wizard of Oz, and others. Now, forty-five years after Roald Dahl’s book,?Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was adapted into Gene Wilder’s?Willy Wonka & the…
In his latest thriller, Dean Koontz gets creepy. That will come as no surprise to his loyal following, but?how?he gets inside the heads of his readers this time is … chilling. In this latest standalone (or is it first in a series) novel, Jane Hawk is an FBI agent on the hunt. She’s suspicious of…
Chips?got a reboot – you might’ve heard. But digging into the Dax Shepard/Michael Pena team-up, I was pleasantly surprised given that it was a box office bomb. Jon Baker (Shepard) and Ponch (Cena) are assigned together when Baker is on probation and Ponch is sent undercover to figure out what’s corrupt about the police officer’s…
In?Grey Lady, TV veteran Eric Dane (The Last Ship, Grey’s Anatomy) teams with Natalie Zea (Justified,?The Following) in a murder mystery mixed with romance and psychological drama. Written, directed, and produced by John Shea, who also founded the Nantucket Film Festival, the film’s moody score plays against the backdrop of the Nantucket seaside (and a…
Have you ever been invited to a party? Were you made to feel special or were you one of the substitutes? Were you invited to something you wanted to go to or were you begrudgingly attending to keep a friend/spouse/parent/grandparent happy? In the Disney’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s story, we find a young woman named…
