Wonder Woman?is the film that?we?need. In fact, in the midst of a depressed box office (good films are harder and harder to find),?Wonder Woman?stands out as my favorite film of the year with only three months left to go. Diana Prince?(Gal Gadot) is raised by her mother, Queen of the Amazons Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), in…
Selected for the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, The Fare is a chilling story of human trafficking starring Johnny Ortiz (American Crime) and Noemi Pedraza. Written and directed by Santiago Palandine, the film tells of a young Ecuadorian teenager ensnared in a sex trafficking organization, who finds himself ordered to transport a fourteen-year-old girl from his…
I?m a sucker for musicals. There is reasonable room for debate as to whether I owe this particular affinity to my mother after making me watch a regular rotation of Hello Dolly, Calamity Jane, Oklahoma!, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and countless others; or my father, a life-long drummer with a soft spot for any…
So,?Detroit flopped at the box office. ?Rightfully so. ?Oscars? ?Won’t happen. ?I’m not particularly mad at Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal for retelling the story. ?They’re filmmakers. ?They have every right to tell the story they want to tell. ?Their intentions were good. ?Fifty years after the horrifying incident at the Algiers Motel, they wanted…
you’re likely upset about what happened in Charlottesville maybe you’ve talked about it, maybe took ?some kind of social media stance, maybe just sort of saddened inside it’s probably super obvious to you that all these alt-right racists are wrong, that racism is wrong (“evil” as Trump (finally) put it), has always been wrong, that…
When I first talked to Remi Adeleke, he was just days away from his first box office action film,?Transformers: Last Knight. Having survived the Bronx as a young man, and the Navy Seals as a young adult, monstrous CGI robots were hardly enough to intimidate him. But to understand who Adeleke was, and to marvel…
The Zabinskis? decision to harbor as many Jews as they could was a courageous act?and a very illegal one. They were well aware of the threat that the Germans represented?both to the Jews and to those who harbored them.
In the two-hour conclusion, Albert Einstein has moved to the US and is a professor at Princeton University. But the events of the world have seemed to conspire against him.
The film Cars 3 opens with a blank screen as Lightning McQueen pumps himself up for the upcoming race: ?Speed. I am speed.? Sound familiar?
We return to a question posed in the first episode: will Albert and Elsa Einstein get their visas approved to the US?
