Recognized for its powerful representation of family, abandonment, hope, and redemption. In the adaptation of Saroo Brierley’s A Long Way Home, director Garth Davis shepherds Dev Patel through the story as the older Brierley and Nicole Kidman as his adoptive mother.?Six nominations at the 89th Academy Awards represent a solid resume, including nominations for Best…
Patriots Day commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord, where growing American forces took a stand against encroaching British forces. In New England, specifically Massachusetts, there is a holiday – including the running of the Boston Marathon that goes past Fenway Park where the Red Sox play. In 2013, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set…
Let’s roll out a list of actors:?Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Olivia Munn, T. J. Miller, Jillian Bell, Courtney B. Vance, Rob Corddry, and Randall Park. Add in directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck (who previously worked with Bateman and Aniston in?The Switch; they also brought us?Blades of Glory) and writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore…
Thanks to a new Blu-ray release of?Lifeboat, a new generation of film fans will experience the work of several masters in cinematic drama. Directed by the legendary horror maven Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Steinbeck, and boasting three nominations for Academy Awards, the film brings the claustrophobia of other Hitchcock films like?Rear Window?and?Rope. Here, the…
Months after seeing?Silence?for the first time, I still find myself in engaging conversations about what it means for people of faith today. The ends of conversations always seem to trail off in a complicated way that demand we agree to disagree, or at least understand that we can’t quite line up our understanding of faith…
Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening) wants to raise her son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) well, but she doesn’t know how. As the owner of a boarding house, she’s able to draw from the knowledge and experience of those around her, like the carpenter William (Billy Crudup) and the photographer Abbie (Greta Gerwig). It’s 1979 as the…
Dennis Lehane’s crime noir develops in a way that translates easily on screen, with a filmography that includes Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island, and the underwhelming The Drop. In Live by Night, Lehane teams with another Boston guy, Ben Affleck, to deliver a film that is all noir and muddled ethics, but fails…
Sing?is that rare animated flick that bears watching several times because there’s more to be gleaned each time – and it’s an entertaining musical montage. The latest film from Illumination Entertainment finds theater manager Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a koala, trying anything he can to revitalize the flagging stage business. When he accidentally (with help…
Troy (Denzel Washington) is a hard man, but Rose (Viola Davis) loves him anyway, and his sons begrudgingly respect him. But over time, his stubbornness, his upbringing, and his experience of racism drive him farther and farther away from the rest of his family. Ultimately, each person must choose how they’ll handle the adversity, and…
Idris Elba stars in a none-Elba-like role, here as a retired rugby star named Max whose marriage to former actress Emily (Gemma Arterton) is dying. Both of them are unfaithful: he’s hopping from relationships to alcohol; she’s involved with an old flame (Tom Cullen). But this?Crash-like ensemble piece involves two other pairings we’re inclined to…
