Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut, The Piano Lesson, adapts August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play into a deeply evocative film that reverberates with the weight of family legacy, grief, and resilience. Set against the backdrop of 1930s Pittsburgh, the film cleverly captures the essence of a Black family’s struggle over an heirloom piano, whose carved surfaces tell the […]
It’s somewhat curious to me that the famed director Joel Coen (usually with his brother Ethan, but not this time) would choose to film a Shakespeare play. We don’t seem to be in the right climate for that now, but I read that his wife, Frances McDormand, had wanted him to direct the Macbeth play for
In his first film since the smash hit “Crazy Rich Asians,” director Jon M. Chu teams with Tony award-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda bringing his Broadway hit “In the Heights” to the big screen. If you like your musicals flashy, long and chaotic, “In the Heights” will certainly satisfy that missing element from the box office. A
The last decent Michael Bay movie was Transformers (2007). Since then the action director has delivered a buffet of discardable sequels and ornamental Wal-Mart shelf one-offs. Up to now, everything was done under the studio system, and while it’s true the 2013 Pain & Gain (based on a very violent true story) was an attempt
This marks the 5th big screen adaptation of King Kong, and only twelve years after Peter Jackson (“The Lord of the Rings”) put him back on screen. Jordan Vogt-Roberts’s sophomore film is an enormous leap from the tiny independent movie “The Kings of Summer” (2013) to this nearly $200 million dollar monster flick. What works;
We have had three reboots of Spider-Man, something we all know like the back of our hand, but it’s curious that not once has a filmmaker before Straight Outta Compton explored the story of America’s first real rap group. Most of us are familiar with the names Dr. Dre in the music world or Ice