Quentin Tarantino's eighth film, a western that wasn't a sequel to?Django Unchained,?focuses in on eight characters of ill repute who find themselves stuck in an isolated cabin in the midst of a snow storm. In true Tarantino fashion, the complexity of the characters...
On Christmas 2015, a crime/action flick called?Point Break?exploded into theaters and ... fizzled out. But what younger audiences may not know is that this film about globetrotting thrill seekers who also robbed banks is a remake of one of the best action/buddy films...
Some people see mountains before them and give up. Other people see mountains and blaze trails discovering new ways around or through those mountains. In the case of Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), there are always ways?over?them. Thanks to the visual artistry...
Bobby Fischer, an American Grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion, was a polarizing political figure as well as a very sharp mind. His rise coincided with the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, adding a complexity to his life - and...
After attending a funeral, sixty-year-old Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) decides he should walk the 2,190 miles of the Appalachian Trail. When his wife (Emma Thompson) refuses to let him go alone, he places 'want ads' out to his friends - who all turn him down. But then...
Denis Villeneuve is a bad man. His work (Prisoners) keeps me up at night, directing well-known actors in ways that we don't expect or haven't prepared our minds for. In?Sicario, he shows us the world of the drug cartels through the eyes of 'good guy' Kate Macer (Emily...
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. Now, American audiences can enjoy the film's...
Peter Pan (Levi Miller) is the kid who wants to find his mother before he's the boy who never grew up. That is, before he never grew up, he was just an orphaned, little boy missing his mother. Imprisoned in an orphanage with the ominously hoarding Mother Barnabas...
Robert De Niro. Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Kate Bosworth. Morris Chestnut. Gina Carano. Dave Bautista. The cast list reads like a who's who of good-but-not-great films that have littered the landscape of early spring and late summer. All of them have been...