Not all coming of age stories are about the young. “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” won’t be a film for everyone. However, director Sophie Hyde and writer Katy Brand have found a small slice of originality in this conversation piece that gets frank about sexuality, maturity and self-worth. “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” […]
Brian (Earl) is an inventive soul whose house in Wales looks like a laboratory made from whatever he can find and bring home. He’s even made a cuckoo clock that can fly so the townspeople can check out the time in the sky wherever they are. Then one day he decides to make a robot to help
The “Jurassic World” franchise has been on a steady decline since its revitalization in 2015. Nothing was ever going to recapture the magic of the original from 1993, which now seems like a modest, less-is-more film, compared with the five subsequent sequels. Colin Trevorrow (“Jurassic World”) returns to finish the series, which must end, as
Benediction is not your usual war story. It starts out in London in 1914 with a poem about war written by Siegfried Sassoon (played by Jack Lowden as the younger and Peter Capaldi as the older), the protagonist whose life is chronicled beginning with his years as a young man when he and his brother are
I overheard an audience member in the screening I attended say that he didn’t like the televised version of Bob’s Burgers at first, but it grew on him and he eventually got to watching it regularly. I’ve never seen one episode, so you can imagine my reaction during the first fifteen minutes of the movie. What was
The opening credits and music are identical to the 1986 film by Tony Scott. If you take nostalgia out of the equation, the original film had some of the worst acting, editing and cinematography around. Looking back at the Navy propaganda flick feels more like watching a video game than a feature film. Thirty-six years,
<p>A new era, with mostly the right amount of sentimentality, joy, pain—and surprises. The Crawley family is in a quandary about permitting a film crew to shoot a movie in their home (it’s still in the silent era), and of course—since they need money to fix the roof, they will agree. But not without the vociferous protest
Writer and director Alex Garland might be one of the most promising filmmakers of the new era. Previous films “Ex Machina” and “Annihilation” display a unique vision of getting underneath the science fiction genre, offering new ideas and social warnings if you listen with your eyes. Garland delivers something unexpected with “Men.” Flirting more with
This is a story about children, some of it distressing and some of it rewarding. Central is Ida (Flottum), a 4-5 year-old girl living in Norway with her parents and older sister Anna (Ramstad), who is autistic and mute, although she could speak at one time. Ida is introspective despite her young age, and not inclined to
This is a strangely seductive movie, showing a British family with a rather daft though good-hearted Kempton Bunton (Broadbent), his wife Dorothy Bunton (Mirren), and younger son Jackie (Whitehead) not communicating very well with one another. Dorothy is extremely critical of Kempton (for some good reasons), which makes him more secretive at times, and Jackie torn