Director: Thea Sharrock Running Time 100 min Rated R Grade B+ Easily the year’s funniest film. Wicked Little Letters is a performance goldmine from the versatile Oscar-winning Olivia Colman (The Favourite, Wonka). In fact, what other reason do you need a true story, with Colman and Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley (Women Talking, Wild Rose) swearing […]
I’m not sure we needed another “Wonka” film reboot. Although, like with the chocolate itself, “needs” and “wants” are often confused. Paul King, the director of the adorable “Paddington” films, brings his whimsical touch to the Willy Wonka origin story. The world’s new favorite movie star, Timothee Chalamet (“Call Me By Your Name,” “Dune”), sings
A romantic tryst in a mansion on a sunny day between lovers who have been seeing each other for seven years seems like it will be a lovely story, except that it’s bittersweet; this will be their last time together because Paul (O’Connor) is getting married the next day to someone else. Jane (Young) seems to
“Children are a crushing responsibility,” Olivia Colman’s character says to a young mother. How “The Lost Daughter” came to be a motion picture is almost as fascinating as the film itself. The mysterious author, Elena Ferrante, is anonymous (her identity and location are unknown). She emailed actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, giving her the rights to turn
Based on a true story of an exceedingly eccentric man, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is about a British man living in the late nineteenth century who made a remarkable living out of his cat pictures. The electrical part is what he feels when he is around cats—inspiration, perhaps?—which he conceptualizes as electricity. He does talk in the
Of all the recent plays adapted into feature films, “The Father” stands tall as the most impressive. Equally impressive is the directorial debut of Florian Zeller, who unlike other first-time directors this season, displays natural cinematic gifts. “The Father” is a literal mind-bending mystery about a man suffering from dementia/Alzheimer’s, or is he? In a
Them That Follow is not a horror movie, but you wouldn’t know that from the marketing and especially the poster which features a snake wrapped about lead actress Alice Englert neck. To the films credit, the subject matter is quite horrific. Religious fanaticism set in the backwoods of the Appalachian Mountains, finds an all-star cast
Despite internationally acclaimed director Yorgos Lanthimos not penning the script this time, “The Favourite” is still very much one of his films. The severe divisiveness among critics caused by “The Lobster” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” is lessened in “The Favourite,” which started garnering Oscar buzz the moment it debuted at the Venice Film Festival. It’s
Director Kenneth Branagh (“Thor”) has procured the leading role of famous literary inspector Hercule Poirot for himself. A former television film, based on Agatha Christie’s most popular mystery novel, “Murder on the Orient Express” gets the big screen treatment with a cast as long as the train. There are ensembles where the cast works as
Yorgos Lanthimos’s first English language film will stand out as 2016’s most peculiar film (although it played most film festivals last year). It should ignite fans of films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or I Heart Huckabees, as it seeks to bewilder the romance genre to an unrecognizable point. Its weirdness is its