?The whole of life, already framed, right there.? It?s hard to assign Maudie to any one genre. Certainly it qualifies as biography. But it is also a bit of art history. It?s an inspirational story of finding success and happiness against terrible odds. And at its heart it is a love story?but not the kind…
Farce, to me, occupies a place between the Shakespearean comedies of people falling in love and the modern romcom. False Confessions is a 21st century update of an 18th century French farce. If it seems stagy it is because of more than just its historical roots.
Life is a series of transitions, bookended by the two great transitions of birth and death. But along the way there are many more shifts in our lives?some trivial, others more profound. The Midwife is a story of the transitions of life that is (like life) a mixture of humor and poignancy.
Bill Randa (John Goodman) assembles a crack team of explorers in his quest to justify expenditures for his company, Monarch, in the days after Vietnam. With photojournalist Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), tracker James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston), soldier Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson), and geologist Houston Brooke (Corey Hawkins), Randa goes looking for a way to…
In Lionsgate’s wild bullet party, Justine (Brie Larson) facilitates the sale of weapons from an IRA buyer, Chris (Cilian Murphy), and the South African seller, Vernon (Sharlto Copley), in Boston warehouse in the 1970s. But like every criminal enterprise (ever?) things go south when complications occur. Will anyone make it out of the warehouse alive?…
With great homework comes great responsibility. Spider-Man: Homecoming brings us back to Peter ?s high school years (he’s fifteen) as he tries to balance his family, friends, homework, and an ongoing application to join the Avengers.? Publicly claiming to be a member of the ?Stark Internship?, young Peter is secretly being mentored by Tony Stark…
Recently, Steve Norton and I were lucky enough to attend an advance screening of The Big Sick in Toronto, which had two surprise guests ? Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, Emily V. Gordon! This film had already been released in select cities in the States at the time of the advance screening, and will have…
Caution:? This documentary review contains spoilers.? (Yes, you read that correctly.) Directed by Sarah Polley, The Stories We Tell, in some ways, is the rarest of documentaries: that where the filmmaker turns the camera on themselves.? In a revealing examination of her family history, Polley explores the period in her life when she discovered that…
In his latest thriller, Dean Koontz gets creepy. That will come as no surprise to his loyal following, but?how?he gets inside the heads of his readers this time is … chilling. In this latest standalone (or is it first in a series) novel, Jane Hawk is an FBI agent on the hunt. She’s suspicious of…
The Zabinskis? decision to harbor as many Jews as they could was a courageous act?and a very illegal one. They were well aware of the threat that the Germans represented?both to the Jews and to those who harbored them.
