Chris Evans has made quite a name for himself as Captain America and other brash, macho men. But in?Gifted, Evans plays Frank Adler, the uncle of a very intelligent seven-year-old, in Fox Searchlight’s drama about family, intelligence, and finding one’s own way. Frank raises Mary (McKenna Grace), the daughter of his deceased sister, in his…
Patriots Day commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord, where growing American forces took a stand against encroaching British forces. In New England, specifically Massachusetts, there is a holiday – including the running of the Boston Marathon that goes past Fenway Park where the Red Sox play. In 2013, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set…
The Force is with me, and I am with the Force. And I fear nothing, for all is as the Force wills it. We hear Chirrut, one of the old Guardians of the temple on the planet Jedha, speaking of his confidence in the Force as he steps in to help Jyn and Cassian. We…
Let’s roll out a list of actors:?Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, Olivia Munn, T. J. Miller, Jillian Bell, Courtney B. Vance, Rob Corddry, and Randall Park. Add in directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck (who previously worked with Bateman and Aniston in?The Switch; they also brought us?Blades of Glory) and writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore…
War has done more to shape the history of the world than one might be willing to consider.
Thanks to a new Blu-ray release of?Lifeboat, a new generation of film fans will experience the work of several masters in cinematic drama. Directed by the legendary horror maven Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Steinbeck, and boasting three nominations for Academy Awards, the film brings the claustrophobia of other Hitchcock films like?Rear Window?and?Rope. Here, the…
Months after seeing?Silence?for the first time, I still find myself in engaging conversations about what it means for people of faith today. The ends of conversations always seem to trail off in a complicated way that demand we agree to disagree, or at least understand that we can’t quite line up our understanding of faith…
It’s 1926 in J.K. Rowling’s romp that takes the world of Harry Potter across the pond to New York City. The estimable Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) plays the eccentric Newt Scamander – a character first mentioned in passing in?Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – fresh off the boat as it were, chasing…
Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening) wants to raise her son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) well, but she doesn’t know how. As the owner of a boarding house, she’s able to draw from the knowledge and experience of those around her, like the carpenter William (Billy Crudup) and the photographer Abbie (Greta Gerwig). It’s 1979 as the…
Communication is the lifeblood of today?s society, helping to make sense of life?yet many of us don?t know the history of how it came to be.
