Starring Lindsay Lohan, Mean Girls is considered by many to be the best film of her career to date. Subsequent personal problems and brushes with the law made her a and a rare sight on the big screen in recent…
Having impressed with her directorial debut The Edge of Seventeen, Kelly Fremon Craig returns to the director’s chair for Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret an adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic novel. Margaret Simon (Abby Ryder Fortson) is a…
When Guy Ritchie signed on to direct 2009’s Sherlock Holmes, he said he sought to “make a very contemporary film as far as the tone and texture”, because it has been “a relatively long time since there’s been a film…
Sporting his remarkably convincing English accent for the first time since his Oscar nominated role in Chaplin, Robert Downey, Jr. takes on the lead role in director Guy Ritchie’s (Snatch) Sherlock Holmes. Equal parts buddy film and adventure, the detective…
Mean Girls: 15th Anniversary Edition showed up at my door yesterday. Starring Lindsay Lohan, it’s considered by many to be the best film of her career to date. Subsequent personal problems and brushes with the law have made her a…
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It took a few years, but Doctor Strange has finally entered the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse by way of a self-titled origin story. Though saddled with mandatory elements, the story offers enough ingenuity and excitement to keep viewers engaged. For those…
This year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture, Spotlight manages a fairly low-key vibe while dealing with a very difficult subject. Exceptional writing and an outstanding ensemble cast recount the true story about a group of newspaper journalists who exposed a…
Despite being formulaic from start to finish, Southpaw manages to pack an emotional punch largely due to the performance of Jake Gyllenhaal, who really sunk his teeth into the material and explored the psyche of his character. Gyllenhaal clearly spent…
A former member of the British Intelligence Services MI5 and MI6, John le Carré has established himself as a foremost writer of espionage fiction. Several of his works have been adapted into memorable films including: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (be…