The year was 1967. Technology hasn?t provided DVRs or even VHS tapes, but seven-year-old Kelly Asbury visited the local movie theater one afternoon. Spellbound by a re-release of Walt Disney?s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Asbury told his brother that he had to find a way to make his drawings move that way as…
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…
The Force is with me, and I am with the Force. And I fear nothing, for all is as the Force wills it. We hear Chirrut, one of the old Guardians of the temple on the planet Jedha, speaking of his confidence in the Force as he steps in to help Jyn and Cassian. We…
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…
It’s 1926 in J.K. Rowling’s romp that takes the world of Harry Potter across the pond to New York City. The estimable Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) plays the eccentric Newt Scamander – a character first mentioned in passing in?Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – fresh off the boat as it were, chasing…
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…
This week, Steve welcomes ScreenFish newbie Derek Wong to delve into the tale as old as time when they chat about Disney’s remake of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Can the 2017 version live up to the legacy of the original? What does it mean to be timeless?Has true beauty changed? All this and more, only…
The foundation of the story is the devastation that war brings. Everyone in this story suffers from the war. Anna and Frantz?s parents (and many of the townspeople) grieve the loss of the young men killed in the war.
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…
