Nearly 45 years after John Carpenter’s original, Halloween Ends, the final chapter in the Michael Myers saga makes its way to theaters and Peacock this weekend. Director David Gordon Green’s (“Stronger,” “Halloween“) trilogy has been brilliant at bringing characters from the original film and initial sequels into the forefront. Still, it has fallen short in creating […]
“You put peace out into the world, and you get it back,” is one of the first things Ladybug (Brad Pitt) says in this film. Pitt makes a true statement here, but it’s not where director David Leitch heads with “Bullet Train.” Leitch (“Deadpool 2,” “Atomic Blonde”) integrates the energy and action of a Quentin
Short, sweet, and visually poetic, “A Love Song” is a slice of “Nomadland” with Wes Anderson’s aesthetic. Writer/director Max Walker-Silverman graduates with honors from short films to this, his first full-length feature. Longtime character actress Dale Dickey (“Hell or High Water” and “Winter’s Bone”) finally receives the space for a complete performance. Walker-Silverman leans heavily
This is a crime drama as thrilling as any you would want to see, with the best of writing and directing by Anna Gutto and a cast containing the illustrious Juliette Binoche in a completely divergent role from her past and the inimitable Morgan Freeman being in his quintessential role of the quiet, irritating upsetter. Close
There is little gray in the Russo brothers’ latest colorful action thriller for Netflix. The Avengers/Captain America franchise directors apply their signature full tilt style of heavy edits, globetrotting locations and high-octane action sequences. Netflix has a pattern of dropping these overly produced action flicks in the summer to rival whatever is playing in theaters.
This is a feel-good movie through and through, although rather pie-in-the sky. I gather the point of the story is that kindness begets kindness from a London dance hall to the House of Dior in Paris…except when it doesn’t. Mrs. Ada Harris (played superbly by Lesley Manville) is a kindly, sparkly cleaning woman who gets a
A beautifully rendered film about a remarkable child abandoned by her family and growing up alone in a shack in the marshland of North Carolina. Isolated from most of the town of Barkley Cove, she is called “the marsh girl” by townspeople who make up all kinds of negative stories about her. There are kindly people
From colorful and vivacious to the feature debut of Director Bretten Hannam, exploring Mi’kmaq (First Nations people, indigenous to the areas of Canada) culture in the coming of age story “Wildhood.” This is the type of hidden gem that the Toronto International Film Festival gets praise for finding and shedding light on. While it’s easy
The opening sequences of “Elvis” and the introduction to The King are not too dissimilar to that of “Moulin Rouge!” when Satine finally drops into frame. Australian filmmaker and Oscar nominee, Baz Luhrmann has an eccentric style of directing that leans heavy on abundance. His flair for color in every frame, manic editing and gaudy
The story of a revolution told by artists is so different from the same story told by political scientists or historians—not that I’m discounting the latter. What strikes me, though, is that artists have a way of conveying the social/emotional and individualized experiences of what actual people go through during a revolution such as the uprising