This year, there are no blockbusters, no Marvel superheroes, on my list of my favorite films. This year, the films that caught my eye - and held onto my imagination, days later - weren't the ones with the biggest budgets, or even always the most-known cast and crew....
In David Ayers' breakthrough from?gritty thrillers (Fury, End of Watch, Training Day),?Suicide Squad proves to be a multi-faceted adventure that drags us into the darker end of the DC Comics Universe. Here, in the spirit of John Ostrander's comic book creation, Amanda...
Rebellious young elf Amberle Elessedil (Poppy Drayton) finds herself fighting to protect the Ellcrys tree just days after she becomes the first female to qualify as one of the Chosen. With the whole world in the balance, thanks to the invasion of demons from The...
Corinne Brinkerhoff worked her way through the television production process, producing and writing on shows like?The Good Wife?and?Elementary, before creating her own series,?American Gothic, in 2016. Filled with intrigue, family drama, and political machinations,...
Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) loves music and opera. She has a vocal coach, the assistant director of the Metropolitan Opera, and hires a pianist, Cosme McMoon (Simon Helberg), because she longs to sing. Unfortunately, mostly for the people who hear her, she...
Steven Seagal is so far above the law that he's hard to kill. Sorry, I just couldn't help myself. In Contract to Kill, Seagal plays John Harmon, he plays a dangerous man who is on deadly ground and out for justice. Okay, seriously, I'll stop now... Harmon is a CIA guy...
In the fifth film of the modern-day Jason Bourne series, Matt Damon returns after the mis-hit that was Jeremy Renner's take. Paul Greengrass - he of the herky-jerky camera directs - using a storyline he worked out with?The Bourne Ultimatum's?co-writer Christopher...
In director Chris Renard's (Despicable Me franchise) latest film,?The Secret Life of Pets, a community of diverse and quirky animated animals unite to save the Jack Russell terrier Max (Louis C.K.) when Max's territorial nature forces him into confrontation with his...
Boasting a directorial debut by Justin Tipping and a star premiere by Jahking Guillory,?Kicks?takes us on an urban adventure in the life of a fifteen-year-old. Wishing for a pair of the hottest sneakers (or kicks), Brandon wants to escape the closing noose of poverty,...