An authentic and moving story, Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By the Sea, is a portrait of a man so consumed by grief, going through the motions of a life, but no longer living. Avoiding any social contact and engaging in menial…
Contemplative science fiction with a heart, Arrival begins with a solemn voice over by Amy Adams. In just the first couple of minutes, it’s clear that this is going to be much more than just another movie about aliens. As…
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is fifty years old this year. No stranger to controversial topics, in 1967 director/producer Stanley Kramer (Inherit the Wind, Judgement at Nuremberg) offered his thoughts on race relations and interracial marriage (something that had been…
It’s hard to believe that Dirty Dancing is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year. Just 14 when the film hit theaters in August if 1987, I saw the film and loved it. My friends and I quickly bought the soundtrack…
Lacking the effective scares of its predecessor, Poltergeist II: The Other Side attempts to provide additional backstory for some of the events that occurred in the first film. While Poltergeist II brought back most of the original cast (save for…
Based on Alex Karmel’s novel Mary Ann, Something Wild was independently financed and released through United Artists largely on the strength of star Carroll Baker. Baker was then married to writer/director Jack Garfien, who had received critical accolades for his…
Particularly during the 1970’s, the late David Bowie often cast himself as a kind of ulterior being–something not of this world, a kind of Space Oddity. How appropriate then, that he play the role of an alien in Nicolas Roeg…
For every John Wick, Keanu Reeves seems to have a film that goes straight to video, or spends two minutes in the multiplex, only to be quickly forgotten. In the latter category, The Whole Truth, is an occasionally engrossing courtroom…
Based on true events, Battleground tells the story of a group of men in the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Surprisingly realistic for the time, none of the men are heroic and…
Inferno is the third in a trilogy of films based on Dan Brown best bestsellers. Like the first two films, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Inferno stars Tom Hanks as art historian and cryptologist Robert Langdon, who…