Mare of Easttown was an unexpected gem, first telecast on HBO Max and now available via DVD. Over seven episodes, Kate Winslet's detective Mare Sheehan navigates the troubling world of her hometown, where she once starred on the basketball court for her high school,...
Based on Anthony Burgess' novel, Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange dives into a satirical (murderous) discourse on the nature of humanity and free will. Along the way, it'll question where a person can be forced to be good or if goodness can only be determined by the...
Before he was helming The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, or The Outsiders, Francis Ford Coppola began his directing career with a Psycho knock-off commissioned by Roger Corman with funds left over from Corman's The Young Racers. The end result is a black-and-white film...
Whenever I'm asked what my favorite movies are, The Shawshank Redemption always appears in my top five. Rewatching the film again in beautifully clear 4K Ultra HD, it's at the top of the list, a remarkable story ("Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption") by Stephen...
In Catch the Bullet, twenty-two-year-old, veteran actor Gattlin Griffith rides in on a horse - as the villain. Alongside stars like Tom Skerritt and Jay Pickett, Griffith and his younger brother Callder share the story of a U.S. Marshal Britt MacMasters (Pickett) who...
Ji-Yoon (Sandra Oh) is the newly-minted chair of the English Department at Pembroke University, an institution of higher learning that has struggled financially and publicly with its appearance. She is subject to Dean Paul Larson (David Morse) and in love with fellow...
Sweet Girl, a Netflix thriller, stars Jason Momoa as Ray Cooper, a veteran and father who watches as his wife passes away to cancer after a medical syndicate forces a drug off of the market, and feels compelled to wage a one-man war against the corporations involved....
Let's just get this out of the way: Reminiscence is like a mash up of Inception and Chinatown, with a mystery that seems like Robert B. Parker should've written it and Christopher Nolan or Zack Snyder should've shot it. But it stars a breathy Hugh Jackman and...
With apologies to Johnny Depp, Gene Wilder is the REAL Willy Wonka. And with apologies to Wilder's other projects, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was THE movie he was meant to make. Based on the Roald Dahl book, the film's eccentric characters make for a...