In the latest Steven Spielberg-directed thriller, Tom Hanks stars as James Donovan, an insurance lawyer who finds himself in Russia?in the middle of a spy swap. Based on the 1957 Cold War friction revolving around Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) and Gary Powers (Austin Stowell), the film ratchets up in intensity and emotion as it races…
This week’s offerings include:?Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, Our Brand is Crisis, Rocking the Kasbah, The Last Witch Hunter, Batman: Bad Blood, Freeheld, The Assassin, Man Up, and?Meadowland. Our Brand is Crisis?(Warner Bros.) Sandra Bullock has never looked so bad – even in?28 Days!?As Calamity Jane Bodine, she is drawn out of retirement…
Off of the coast of Cape Cod in 1952, two oil tankers were split in half by a giant storm, but only one of them had a chance to send out an S.O.S. As the main Coast Guard unit worked to rescue those on the first ship, SS Fort Mercer, a handful of men left…
In?Synchronicity, super-smart physicist Jim Beale (Chad McKnight) figures out how to achieve time travel – at least as far as flowers like a rare kind of dahlia are concerned. Still, as smart as Beale is with a computer and lab equipment, he’s oblivious to the chink in his armor, Abby (Brianne Davis). Further,?his powerful financial…
I had a surreal experience in August. I left the theater for?Straight Outta Compton?momentarily, to discuss?Captive?with David Oyelowo… and ended up discussing race, violence, and Jesus Christ with a black man from England. I returned to?Compton?moments later, and found myself wondering what we’ve learned in a hundred and fifty years since the end of the…
The Revenant?cleaned up at the Golden Globes – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Film Not in Matt Damon’s category. [Okay, I made that last category up… sort of.] But the truth is that while director?Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu’s latest film (he’s the artistic mind behind?Birdman) dances gracefully, bloodily, across the fallen snow, the…
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!–Sir Walter Scott In the second season of HBO’s hit television series,?True Detective, the all-new cast tackles a case full of nooks and crannies wrapped around the morale that “we get the world that we deserve.” An Army veteran and current California patrolman,…
Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) takes on an internship at Jules Ostin’s (Anne Hathaway) startup company as a seventy-year-old. His life has fallen into the routine (read: boring) since his wife died, and his career as an executive for a telephone directory company is well in his past. Still,?Ostin isn’t interested in the program that…
The coming-of-age high school comedy gets mashed up with the zombie onslaught in Christopher B. Landon’s (Paranormal Activity,?Disturbia) latest horror flick. Though,?in?Scouts Guide to the Apocalypse, the zombies are just the backdrop for an overarching story about three friends who must fight through their own impulses and mistakes to discover that … scouting is cool….
In 2012, Prapas Cholsaranont directed a 3D animation movie called Yak the Giant King based on the Thai animation film Ramayana about two robots on opposite sides of a conflict which lacks any purpose that they can remember. In 2015, Lionsgate re-released the film with English-speaking actors like Bella Thorne and Russell Peters, under the…
