Netflix delivers a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s best picture winner “Rebecca”, based on Daphne Du Maurier’s novel. While the original was presented in eerie black and white, Ben Wheatley’s adaptation is gloriously colorful, even using the easily recognizable Hatfield House, in Hertfordshire where “The Favourite” was shot. While Kristin Scott Thomas (“Military Wives”) is ideally […]
There is going to be a lot of talk about “Hereditary,” which is the type of film that exists to disturb, bother, and create conversation. First-time feature filmmaker Ari Aster floored audiences when “Hereditary” debuted at Sundance earlier this year. It’s not simply that his film is frightening or distressing; it’s the quality of his writing,
Think of a Lifetime movie, but with Oscar winners and nominees. That’s what director David Frankel’s Collateral Beauty amounts to. If you have never seen a Lifetime film, it’s a network that produces movies that are often contrite, more focused on getting an emotion out of its audience, regardless of the means or accountability in
There is a beauty inside Matt Ross’s film “Captain Fantastic” that is rare and unexplored on film. He might appear as an eccentric, unorthodox father, endangering the lives of his six children by raising them on 300-year-old methods. An open-minded viewer might instead find a film that explores the difficulties of parenthood regardless of the
Wildlike is not to be confused with Wild, the film starring Reese Witherspoon, or Into the Wild, which was also filmed in Alaska. Wildlike is the latest indie from Frank Hall Green that takes us into the 49th state, an area seemingly only used for films when the plot requires stunning scenery and a character