To be clear, I had not read Paula Hawkins' thriller before seeing the stories of three suburban women unfold onscreen in Tate Taylor's (The Help, Get on Up) cinematic version of?The Girl on the Train. Like?Gone Girl, I had the sense early that the gradient versions of...
Mark Wahlberg has fought Decepticons, a stuffed bear, the Taliban, apes, the Dallas Cowboys, and a host of nefarious bad guys. But in?Deepwater Horizon, he stars as electrician Mike Williams who must fight a much more intangible force, the sudden and immediate...
Ben Affleck had a quiet 2015 by his standards. But in 2016, his depiction as the fifth modern interpretation of Batman in?Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?and?Suicide Squad?drew plenty of attention. And yet, the film no one had on their radar,?The Accountant, may...
Last week, the staff of ScreenFish had a lively debate about animated flicks in 2016. We couldn't agree on which one was best - but given that I'd seen more of them than not, I felt compelled to argue. That left me with this list of films from 2016 - and the reasons...
How much should the government know about you? How much do you value your privacy? The way you answer those questions probably influence what you think of Edward Snowden, the latest subject of Oliver Stone (whose other political figure targets include?JFK?and?W.)...
Lately, remakes are a dime a dozen. You can see 'reboots' of?True Grit and?Terminator, you can watch small screen versions of?Lethal Weapon,?Poltergeist,?Frequency, and?MacGyver.?And now, Yul Brynner's classic, itself a remake of?Seven Samurai, received the Antoine...
On January 15, 2009, U.S. Airways pilot?Chesley"Sully" Sullenberger and his co-pilot, Jeff Skiles, ?were flying a commercial airliner from LaGuardia for a standard run, the same way Sullenberger had flown for forty years. When his Airbus A320 struck a herd of?geese...
Rogue One?is conspicuously "a Star Wars story," not cut from the same mold as?The Force Awakens. But from this lifetime Star Wars fan, that may in fact make it?better?than (some of) its predecessors. In fact, I found myself emotionally more connected to the story of...
Do you ever feel like you need to have something jumpstart your Christmas spirit? While I believe that an act of generosity seems to be the most consistent means of unlocking Christmas in the heart of the Grinchiest Grinch, I'll admit that there are certain films - or...