There’s an awful lot of screaming (maybe too much) in director/co-writer Arkasha Stevenson’s prequel workThe First Omen—and perhaps the mythology is overly twisty and complicated so it can line up […]
Dev Patel has been one of my favorite actors to watch since he splashed onto the scene in Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. Since then he has shown such a range as both […]
Ten years ago, writer/director Ned Benson pieced together three films called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, an ambitious relationship drama with two of the films showing a couple’s experiences from each […]
This weird little based-on-a-true-story tale about an anonymous letter writer who favors vulgar language primarily works so well because of its beyond-talented leads, Olivia Colman as Edith Swan, the letter […]
For Americans, the BBC’s interview with Prince Andrew—assuming it even registered with many—was something of a footnote in the story of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But in the UK, […]
Like many, I first remember taking notice of actor Christina Jackson on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire as Maybelle, the daughter of Chalky White (the late Michael K. Williams). She has starred in other […]
The Listener is something like a combination of a filmed, one-woman stage play and an acting exercise, directed by Steve Buscemi and written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Alessandro Camon (The Messenger). The […]
In 1980, at the ripe old age of 35, Steve Martin was the most famous and successful stand-up comic in the world. Some likened his popularity to that of a […]
Marking the fifth installment in the Legendary/Warner Bros. “Monsterverse” franchise, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire digs deep into the mythology of these so-called Titans, while also attempting to clear a path […]
Last week, we saw Michael Keaton as a hit man dealing with memory-robbing dementia in Knox Goes Away, and this week we have Russell Crowe as a former homicide detective […]
We haven’t seen Regina King on screen (big or small) in nearly two-and-a-half years, when she starred in the excellent Western The Harder They Fall. And with what she has […]
The story goes that actor Sydney Sweeney (Anyone But You, Euphoria, Madame Web) was given the script for Immaculate many years ago, but the project fell through and didn’t get […]