This week in blockbusters, it’s mutants vs. monsters. Logan is already breaking records, but here comes competition, with Legendary Entertainment and Warner Brothers offering the next big release of their new MonsterVerse. Kong: Skull Island is, like the lead mentioned in the title, a big, lumbering, but huge-hearted creature you can’t help but love. …
Anyone who is in love with the 1991 Disney animated feature Beauty and the Beast has been over the moon about the coming of a live-action version starring Hermione Granger herself, Emma Watson. The fact that one of its producers, Don Hahn, also had that credit on the original lends some credibility in the “maintaining …
If God is silent in the presence of human suffering, is he a god worth praising? Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE, a brutal film that leaves the viewer with that question and many others about faith, sacrifice, and what constitutes godliness, is being released nationwide this weekend. This has been the director’s passion project most of his …
If any of you people have more than five years in the rearview mirror of leaving yourself at seventeen behind, let me remind you. It isn’t any kind of fun. I mean, Janis Ian’s song says it all. In case you’d like a refresher, this week’s release THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN is ready and able …
Fans of all things Harry Potter have been anxiously awaiting FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM since they announced Harry Potter series creator J.K. Rowling herself was writing the script. Her involvement automatically, and in all ways, makes this new film series canon. Fans already know a lot about the lead character Newt Scamander, …
ARRIVAL is the science fiction film for people who avoid them because they see them as vapid, effects-driven, plot deficient time-drains. Fans loyal to the genre will also embrace the film, which is about a linguist who is tasked with translating the language of recently landed aliens, in order to open inter-species communications. Auteur director …
The timing for the release of a feature film telling the story of Loving vs. Virginia, the groundbreaking case that legalized interracial marriage, couldn’t be better. Virginia, which Hillary Clinton won during the presidential election, has had a long and checkered racial history. The first laws against interracial marriage began in Virginia, they expanded in …
Few fans of the Marvel cinematic universe know about Doctor Strange. The character doesn’t have the recognition factor that Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America do. With the new release of DOCTOR STRANGE, all that will change. Fan favorite SHERLOCK’s Benedict Cumberbatch is the star, aided by co-starring British acting greats like 12 YEARS A …
If we’re being honest, it’s a gutsy move to call an action film THE ACCOUNTANT. Releasing this week, it stars Ben Affleck as a C.P.A. who not only can solve your tax troubles, he also has a lot of secrets, and knows his way not only around a calculator and the tax code, but guns …
How often do you see a chick-flick release these days? How often do you see a promoted studio film made for 35 million these days? Well, BRIDGET JONES’S BABY is kicking it old school in these and many other ways, and to great, often hilarious success. We all know guys are largely going to avoid …
