Written and directed by Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, Dheepan),?The Sisters Brothers?tells the story of Charlie and Eli Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly), two contract killers in mid-19thCentury America. Here, Charlie and Eli are teamed with detective John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal) to find and kill the humble prospector Hermann Warm (Riz Ahmed). However,…
The Gifted?fits into the overall X-Men universe from the Marvel Comics and Fox films, but allows the audience to see a smaller more intimate view of what it would look like for a family to discover their gifts for the first time. Reed Strucker (Stephen Moyer) works for Sentinel Services, but when his children, Lauren…
Morning, Noon? & Night seeks to be a mirror through which we see the way addiction controls lives. It tries to do so with humor, but in the end it merely ridicules addicts as losers without giving us any real insight to addiction. The film is three interconnected stories (along with some peripheral characters who…
There are some stories that are so universal, so timeless, that they span horizons and bind generations together with one another. Louisa May Alcott?s classic Little Women is one such story. No matter where or when you grew up, whether you had sisters or brothers, there is much to own in the story of the…
Based on the true story of author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Colette?is a young woman from the countryside that falls in love with a Parisien 14-years her senior named Willy. Once they move to Paris, she agrees to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel for her husband. Always willing to capitalize when he discovers talent, Willy convinces Colette to…
The American Dream is that there are no limits to what someone can be. ?We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [sic] are created equal?.? But does science, especially genetics, put that into doubt or even undermine it? A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream takes a look at the…
Taking place in the early 80s, The Old Man and the Gun?follows the (mostly) true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), a man in his 70s who?s sole passion is robbing banks. Acting as a gentleman but packing a gun, Tucker and his ?Over-The-Hill Gang? set out to rob banks across the country. Wrapped up…
Given that this year marks the twentieth?anniversary of the publication of the first Harry Potter novel (well? it had already been published in the UK in 1997, but the US version didn?t come out until 1998), it seems fitting to go back and watch the films that were such an integral part of my childhood.?…
Another DC series developed by Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg, and Marc Guggenheim, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow centers around a hodgepodge team of heroes who travel through time, solving problems and creating new ones. Firestorm (Victor Garber and Franz Drameh), Atom (Brandon Routh), White Canary (Caity Lotz), and Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell) remain consistent from…
In J. K. Rowling’s “other” series, a group of downtrodden, often ignored young people band together to confront an apocalyptic evil while dealing with the usual repertoire of teenage angst. Under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Rowling wrote three stories,?The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm,?and?Career of Evil, from 2013-2015 that have now been adapted into a BBC/Cinemax/Warner…
