Pixar’s 16th feature film, The Good Dinosaur didn’t exactly set the box office on fire when it was released. It’s not a terrible film, it just doesn’t quite measure up to the high standard the animation studio has set for…
One of the most talented and reliable screenwriters during Hollywood’s famed Golden Age, today, Dalton Trumbo is likely better known as a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of ten screenwriters, directors, and producers cited for contempt of Congress…
By 1921, Charles Chaplin was already among the biggest stars in the world courtesy of his 10-15 minute shorts. That year marked the release of The Kid, his first feature film. Having debuted the “Little Tramp,” his most popular character…
The struggle for equal rights for all has been, and in many ways, continues to be, a hard fought battle. Directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Shame) Suffragette vividly recreates the significant sacrifices made…
Fascinating yet depressing, the second season of HBO’s The Leftovers even better than the first. As watchers of the series know, season one focuses on life in Mapleton, New York, in the aftermath of the Sudden Departure, an event in…
After a nearly five-year moratorium, Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs returned to home video earlier this month as the debut title in the Walt Disney Signature Collection, successor to the Diamond Edition line. For fans of streaming,…
It’s long been established that the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was a controlling, egomaniacal bully. Nonetheless, the man who urged the world to “Think different” and introduced the iMac, the iPod and the iPad was one of the most…
In 1957, Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is arrested in New York. Though the trial itself is for little more than show, the government wants it known that he was granted a fair legal defense. To that end, Former…
Exciting, sexy and voyeuristic, 1949’s Bitter Rice (aka Risa Amoro) was a clear move away from the neorealism movement in post war Italy. Just 32 when the film was released, director Giuseppe De Santis gave viewers something to thinking about,…
The dramatic directing debut of British documentarian Morgan Matthews, A Brilliant Young Mind is another addition to the growing list of empathic tales concerning people on the autistic spectrum. For British teenager Nathan Ellis (Asa Butterfield), who struggles to communicate,…