Who is Smurfette and what is her purpose? This is the question, or problem, to be answered in the latest Smurf film, and the first all-animated feature in what Sony Animation hopes will springboard a new level of interest in the little, blue folks. In?Smurfs: Lost Village, Smurfette discovers that there are others like her…
In the latest family fare from Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (Trolls, Kung Fu Panda?trilogy,?Alvin and the Chipmunks 2?and?3), Lucas Till (MacGuyver) plays Tripp, a high school mechanic who discovers a subterranean creature he nicknames Creech, who drinks oil and lives in the hood of his truck. Displaced by the fracking operation run by Tenneson…
Based on Patrick Ness’ novel of the same name, and adapted by a Siobhan Dowd story idea,?A Monster Calls?is a live-action/animated/CGI masterpiece that shares the life and internal struggle of a tween named Conor O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall). Wrestling with his mother’s (Felicity Jones) battle with?a terminal illness, his overbearing grandmother (Sigourney Weaver),?his absentee father (Toby…
Recognized for its powerful representation of family, abandonment, hope, and redemption. In the adaptation of Saroo Brierley’s A Long Way Home, director Garth Davis shepherds Dev Patel through the story as the older Brierley and Nicole Kidman as his adoptive mother.?Six nominations at the 89th Academy Awards represent a solid resume, including nominations for Best…
Chris Evans has made quite a name for himself as Captain America and other brash, macho men. But in?Gifted, Evans plays Frank Adler, the uncle of a very intelligent seven-year-old, in Fox Searchlight’s drama about family, intelligence, and finding one’s own way. Frank raises Mary (McKenna Grace), the daughter of his deceased sister, in his…
The year was 1967. Technology hasn?t provided DVRs or even VHS tapes, but seven-year-old Kelly Asbury visited the local movie theater one afternoon. Spellbound by a re-release of Walt Disney?s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Asbury told his brother that he had to find a way to make his drawings move that way as…
Patriots Day commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord, where growing American forces took a stand against encroaching British forces. In New England, specifically Massachusetts, there is a holiday – including the running of the Boston Marathon that goes past Fenway Park where the Red Sox play. In 2013, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set…
Let’s roll out a list of actors:?Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Olivia Munn, T. J. Miller, Jillian Bell, Courtney B. Vance, Rob Corddry, and Randall Park. Add in directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck (who previously worked with Bateman and Aniston in?The Switch; they also brought us?Blades of Glory) and writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore…
Thanks to a new Blu-ray release of?Lifeboat, a new generation of film fans will experience the work of several masters in cinematic drama. Directed by the legendary horror maven Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Steinbeck, and boasting three nominations for Academy Awards, the film brings the claustrophobia of other Hitchcock films like?Rear Window?and?Rope. Here, the…
Months after seeing?Silence?for the first time, I still find myself in engaging conversations about what it means for people of faith today. The ends of conversations always seem to trail off in a complicated way that demand we agree to disagree, or at least understand that we can’t quite line up our understanding of faith…
