The First King brings to life the timeless tale of Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, who escape capture and begin a journey that will lead one of them to become the founder of the Roman Empire, the most dominant nation history has ever seen. Searching for freedom in the midst of the unforgiving…
As a bus rolls through the decaying town of San Gregorio, Mexico, Cagalera (Benny Emmanuel) and Moloteco (Gabriel Carbajal) don clown makeup in an attempt to entertain riders for tips. In this gripping first scene, director Gael Garcia Bernal does a fantastic job at setting the tone as Cagalera explains that they prefer to make…
MONOS tracks a young group of soldiers living in a remote military outpost in the jungle, who have been tasked with keeping watch over an American hostage, Doctora (Julianne Nicholson). After an ambush drives the squadron into the jungle, order within the group gradually gives way to chaos and the strong begin to prey upon the weak…
Words have power. We often affirm that, but we don?t always see how that power unfolds. Don?t Be Nice is a documentary about people who are seeking to speak with power. It follows the Bowery Slam Poetry Team for several months in 2016 as they struggle to prepare for the national championship. The team consists…
I can still remember seeing Pan’s Labyrinth for the first time. Sitting in the darkened theater, Guillermo del Toro’s visual masterpiece was stunning, and I temporarily forgot I was watching a film in Spanish. The lyrical nature of the story splashed all around me, with the special effects, scenery, actions, soundtrack, and expressive nature of…
Tell Me a Story Seeing the name Kevin Williamson attached to Tell Me a Story might bring to mind images of North Carolina’s Dawson’s Creek, but Williamson has also helped create the horrific and the supernatural in Scream, Dawson’s Creek, The Faculty, and The Vampire Diaries. On CBS All-Access’ real-world fairy tale drama, the bite…
In a throwback to the 1980s, when humor and horror were colliding, Warner Bros. presents Gremlins (1984) in 4K Ultra HD as Steven Spielberg presented Joe Dante’s film about mogwai. A mashup of comedic overtures and threatening horrific undertones, the film follows Zach Galligan’s Billy, a young bank employee who receives a mogwai (little furry…
Starring Renee Zellweger as the titular star, ?Judy follows the final years of Hollywood icon Judy Garland as she performs tireless in an effort to regain custody of her children. Set thirty years “The Wizard of Oz,” Garland arrives in London to perform nightly sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub. While there,…
Sure, your shows are coming back, but here are a few DVD seasons that might fill in the gaps while you wait. The Good Fight: The Third Season Robert and Michelle King’s other “Good” series may have wrapped before they turned to “Evil,” but their run in the courtrooms with Lockhart & Co. will continue,…
In the latest iteration of Shaft, three generations of the crimefighter appear onscreen, bantering and bullying their way through every shade of danger, while struggling to emotionally adapt to their interactions with love. Directed by Tim Story, with a script by Blackish’s Kenya Barris, Richard Roundtree, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jessie T. Usher represent the…
