In 2001, Universal Pictures made a 'little' film about street racing called?The Fast & The Furious. Fourteen years later, the film series has topped itself in each of the six sequels, providing more eye-popping stunts and spectacularly delivering snapshots...
"You were robbed." That's the first thing I said to David Oyelowo upon getting him on the phone to discuss his upcoming film,?Captive, out on September 18. The deep, English laugh that follows tells me that Oyelowo knows?exactly?what I'm talking about, that is, the...
Most films?culminate in a big screen moment, whether it's the dramatic reunion of long lost loved ones or the explosive battle royale.?90 Minutes in Heaven?is that rare film that starts at the end, and then moves forward to what comes after that. Under the artful...
If we're honest with ourselves, we have questions about what happens next. In the next five minutes, the next five years, in the next ... hereafter. Our fiction reflects this, as we read stories and watch movies about people who live forever, people who create...
Stop me if you've heard this one before: Two brothers commit a violent crime; one brother goes to jail and is completely tormented by life beyond bars, while the other tries to make amends (and finds love). Once released, the first/older brother urges the...
In August, over the course of seventy-two hours, I watched the fascinating (and creepy) thriller?Amnesiac,?followed by?the based-on-a-memoir biopic 90 Minutes From Heaven. I quickly realized that even though?the two films were wildly different, they both starred the...
M.C. Gainey has been the face of evil?for years. The journeyman actor has played Tom Friendly in?Lost and Bo Crowder in?Justified, with guest appearances in series from?Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?to?CSI and supporting roles in various movies over the last thirty-five...
I was skeptical of George Miller's sequel to his?Road Warrior?films after so many years away. Seriously, he made?Babe?and two?Happy Feet?movies more recently than he told a Mad Max story. How could?Fury Road?be any good? But as I admitted here, I thought the film was...
One of the things I look forward to most is laying out the films to highlight in the fall. Sure, the summer film preview is a blast - it's usually full of grand, action-packed adventures - but it's nothing like the various thoughtful features that emerge when the kids...