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 […]
It’s difficult to lock down exactly when Fingernails, the first English-language film from Greek director Christos Nikou (Apples), takes place. The obvious answer is that this vaguely sci-fi drama is […]
Shot by cinematographer Luc Montpellier in muted tones that almost make the film look like it was shot in black-and-white and then tinted to match the mood of each moment, […]
A film like Men, the latest from writer/director Alex Garland (Annihilation, Ex Machina), is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. I’m not even entirely sure it’s my cup […]
Italian author Elena Ferrante (a pseudonym, no one actually knows who Ferrante is) has written 11 novels; her four-book Neopolitan series has sold millions of copies, been translated into dozens […]
In 2016, for the second season of the groundbreaking British mini-series The Hollow Crown (adaptations of Shakespeare’s royalty-based history plays), director Dominic Cooke cast Benedict Cumberbatch to play one of […]
When is a spy drama not a spy drama? One answer might be: when the spy in question isn’t really a spy. Thus is the true-life story of British businessman […]
Sometimes shifts in history can be predicted, and other times they happen in unexpected places—such as in the 1970 Miss World competition held every year in London. The film Misbehaviour […]
As he seems to excel at doing in one screenplay after another (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), as well as […]
The new year is young, but thank goodness we didn’t have to wait more than a couple of weeks into it to hit our first big-budget, military-grade stink-bomb of 2020. […]
The most important thing to know about this film—a look at the later period of Judy Garland’s life starring Renée Zellweger as the troubled but exceedingly talented superstar—is that it’s […]
In a genre that seems to be quite of the moment, count Wild Rose as the latest entry into films about female musicians searching for themselves, stardom, love…and sometimes all […]