“I’m more dramatic than people like me to be,” Tammy Faye (Jessica Chastain) says upon first meeting her future husband. “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” isn’t short on dramatics; in fact, this story would seem like fiction if the rise and fall of Jim and Tammy Bakker wasn’t so highly publicized in the late ’80s. […]
As westerns go, “The Kid” has little to offer in the way of original content. You don’t have to look very far to find stellar examples of the genre that once ruled Hollywood. Scott Cooper’s 2017 epic “Hostiles” raised the bar for future westerns. Not only is it a lackluster western, ”The Kid” isn’t even
Liberals (if they buy a ticket) will say Eli Roth’s new film, a remake of the 1974 Charles Bronson film Death Wish, is advocating gun violence. Conservatives will cheer at the screen as Bruce Willis character takes justice into his own hands, grinning as he splatters brains. The police and Chicago are the real losers
James Franco might be the hardest working filmmaker in Hollywood. He jumps from one project to another, writing, directing, acting, producing. His filmography has become so expansive and congested it’s hard to understand his accomplishments. In Dubious Battle is another fleeting “cause film” for Franco, again producer, director and leading actor. He has assembled quite
The only thing Antoine Fuqua’s version of “The Magnificent Seven” adds to the slew of remakes that came before is diversity. Based on the original 1954 “Seven Samurai” by Akira Kurosawa, then Americanized into a western in 1960, a sequel in ’72, then a TV-series in 1998, this story has been told to death. Fuqua
22 years after the groundbreaking original, “Jurassic World” aims to recapture the imagination we felt when Steven Spielberg put life-like dinosaurs on screen for the first time. Director Colin Trevorrow (“Safety Not Guaranteed”) worked very close with Spielberg to get this one right, as “The Lost World” (1997) and “Jurassic Park III” (2001) are regarded