Steven Spielberg, compelled by the parallels between 1971’s Pentagon Papers leak to The New York Times/Washington Post, and our current administration, he rushed new film The Post ahead of his expensive new sci-fi fantasy Ready Player One (2018). The Saving Private Ryan director brings film icons Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks together on the screen […]
There are striking similarities between Chastain’s Miss Sloane from last year, and her buzzy new film Molly’s Game. Both leading characters are unapologetic, powerful and in control of the men around them, while being investigated for illegal activity. Oscar winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) makes his directorial debut here with a fast talking,
Imagine The Devil Wears Prada, only directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, but gender flipped and set in the 1950’s. Ok, so it’s nothing like ‘Prada’, With PTA comes an expectation of brilliance for some, divisiveness for others. Phantom Thread is more in the vein of The Master than the iconic There Will Be Blood. It’s
The scandal for Ridley Scott’s new film All the Money is the World is probably selling more tickets than the film’s subject matter or audience interest. By now everyone knows how Scott replaced Kevin Spacey, originally appearing as John Paul Getty, with eight days of re-shoots. When Michelle Williams (The Greatest Showman), Plummer (The Man
Not all true stories are created equally. Pirates of Somalia takes a unique series of recent events, turning them into a motion picture and the first lead role for X-Man Evan Peters. Sure, Al Pacino appears on the marketing and throughout the trailer, but hopefully audiences are smart enough to recognize he is just shown
Despite being nominated for three Golden Globe awards (Picture comedy, actor comedy, song), The Greatest Showman isn’t the spectacle it thinks it is. Following in the wake of La La Land, this musical history of PT Barnum lacks large set pieces and emotional punch found within the genre. While Jackman is electric on screen, The
Topping last years, A Bigger Splash, Italian director Luca Guadagnino has created nothing short of a masterpiece in adapting André Aciman’s novel of the same name. In a screenplay by James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name is one of the most honest coming of age stories I’ve ever witnessed. The entire film is anchored
The new film from auteur Alexander Payne (Nebraska, The Descendants) is unlike anything he’s done before. It’s a film that first and foremost sells itself as a comedy, to be fair, most Payne films do, yet turns out to be something different entirely. It’s science fiction, but presented in mostly realistic terms. There hasn’t been
How do you tell a story about a pacifist bull? Well, Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Director Carlos Saldanha do just that, based on a book by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson. We don’t know why Ferdinand (Cena) doesn’t want to fight; his father is a champion bull, but Ferdinand likes to smell the flowers—literally!
The 9th “Star Wars” film boasts not only one of the largest casts in the franchise history but also the longest running time (152 minutes). Fanboy director Rian Johnson (“Looper”) takes the reigns from JJ Abrams, delivering an entry that is categorically for the die-hard fan. The story picks up right where 2015’s “The Force