The final installment of director Lars von Trier’s ‘Depression Trilogy’—following the sadistic, Antichrist (2009) and the apocalyptic-drama, Melancholia (2011)—the two-volume, four-hour psychosexual odyssey, Nymphomaniac has proven to be his most controversial film to date. While occasionally fascinating, Nymphomaniac is hardly…
A rather conventional biopic about a decidedly unconventional couple, Philip Kaufman’s HBO telefilm Hemingway & Gellhorn traces the tumultuous relationship between writers Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn. Two of America’s most respected novelists and war correspondents of the 20th century,…
Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as Chicago mayor Tom Kane, is an obvious departure for the actor after two decades of playing the kooky, snobbish Frasier Crane that earned the actor five Emmys over the course of the character’s life on…
Part love story, part science fiction, director David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense is a tale of love, loss and fear. As people around the world are experiencing the loss of sensory perception, a pair of lovers appreciates each other as best…