In George Clooney’s?Suburbicon, things are broken. The focus of the media attention in this 1959 paradise of picket fences and?Stepford Wives?values is the arrival of the first African-American family, the Mayers, who quietly move in across from Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) and his family. But the audience’s attention is drawn to a terse, charged home…
In Geostorm,?Clive Butler stars as Jake Lawson, the architect behind a revolutionary process that controls the weather via satellite called “Dutch Boy.” Thanks to an opening voiceover by Lawson’s daughter, we know that weather is out of control but that Lawson’s Dutch Boy has saved millions of lives. But with any technology, there’s plenty of…
All they wanted was a boys’ night out at a boxing match… Director Stephen Hopkins made his bones with tension-filled action flicks like?Predator 2,?Blown Away, and?The Ghost in the Darkness, while also marking the opening salvo of?24?with his direction. But in 1993’s?Judgment Night, he directs a quartet of young actors as suburban young adults trapped…
Every once and awhile, I come across an animated film I haven’t seen. Still, I was amazed to discover that there was a film that Arthur Rankin Jr. and?Jules Bass (Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, The Hobbit, Thundercats) produced, with Romeo Muller’s script, Don Maclean’s music, and starring the voices of John Ritter,…
We?re used to police procedural TV shows that include forensic science (including fingerprints and autopsies) and psychological profiling. But there was a time when such things were not commonplace in solving crimes. That is the world of The Alienist.
Kids say the darnedest things. Blurting out inappropriate potty humor at the dinner table. Sharing Mommy?s not-so-flattering nickname for Daddy during the children?s sermon. Recounting the violent end to their past life. At least most of us can identify with the first two scenarios. But in The Devout, parents Darryl and Jan Eckford (Charlie Carrick…
P.T. Barnum watched his father toil in poverty, the family suffering in the shadows of the rich Hallett family. With love for Charity Hallett, and a desire to show the world a vision of joy that they hadn’t seen before, Barnum works hard to embrace a new life for his family. With starts and stops,…
The paradox of the film is that it simultaneously is a journey from life to death and a journey from death to life.
Let?s get this out of the way quickly.? If you?re not a fan on the original Blade Runner, you will likely not be particularly interested or impressed by its sequel, Blade Runner 2049. If you, like myself, are a fan of the original, however… maybe everything has led to this. Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival),…
If you?ve been on the Internet for more than 5 minutes in the past two days, you are no doubt aware of a certain PR crisis surrounding an alleged Presidential statement. Nightly news anchors, local bloggers, church leadership councils and literally millions of people are in a state of shock and uproar and have taken…
