How do you build on a classic? That was the charge given to screenwriter David Magee (Finding Neverland, Life of Pi) and director Rob Marshall (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Into the Woods,?upcoming?The Little Mermaid). Set twenty-five years after the Julie Christie and Dick Van Dyke original, the film finds Poppins returning to…
The Hummingbird Project?follows Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgard), two cousins who are players in the lucrative world of high-frequency stock trading. Looking for any advantage, their dream is to build a straight fiber-optic cable line between Kansas and New Jersey in the hopes that the extra milliseconds will make them rich. While Anton…
Director Peter Segal had been quiet for the five years after a series of Adam Sandler hits (50 First Dates, Anger Management)?and the boxing dud?Grudge Match. Now, he’s resurfaced with the Jennifer Lopez-led?Second Act?and?The Pacifier/Spy Next Door-like Dave Bautista film,?My Spy, due this year.??With Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Leah Remini, Dan Bucatinsky, Milo Ventimiglia, and Treat…
Middle age is tough. When you are Gloria Bell, however, you handle it with verve and joy. In Gloria Bell, the?English remake of his 2013 film Gloria, director Sebastian Lelio?casts the luminous Julianne Moore in the lead role. Gloria leads a happy life. She’s divorced but on good terms with her ex. She’s involved in…
Nobody wants to be filled with evil.? There?s something about the light that has the ability to penetrate darkness and yet overcome it.
There is an old gospel song, ?This world is not my home, I?m just a-passing through?. A bit of that sense of temporariness is what we find in Transit from German director Christian Penzold. There are various aspects of this film that may leave us a bit off-balance, but that just adds to the depth…
?There is nothing more dangerous for a warrior than emotion.? (Yon-Rogg) A new superhero comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Captain Marvel brings us the MCU?s first woman superhero, a soldier in the midst of an intergalactic war who ends up on earth and becomes ground zero for that war. Ah, but all may not…
If you missed 2017?s Happy Death Day, we can?t really help you. So much of the fun is in the surprises that it would be a disservice to ruin the journey for you (which, ironically, makes reviewing the sequel all the more challenging). But here?s what you need to know. In the first film, the…
Before?SWAT, Hawaii Five-O, MacGuyver, Lethal Weapon,?and?Magnum P.I.?were remade as television dramas, studios seemed fascinated with remaking old television shows into slightly more offbeat films. In between films like I, Spy,?and later films like?The A-Team?and?21 Jump Street,?Starsky & Hutch?took the old 1970s buddy cop show and twisted it, hard. Thanks to Warner Archive Collection, the Blu-ray…
Sean Anders and his wife adopted children cross-culturally, undertaking a more difficult task than making audiences laugh with?We are the Millers, She’s Out of My League,?and the?Daddy’s Home?films. Thanks to the success he had writing and directing those other films, Paramount Pictures’ greenlit Anders’ more intimate project,?Instant Family. Here, Anders told his story, and the…
