The most popular play of August Wilson’s century spanning Pittsburgh cycle, Fences, had a long, somewhat eventful journey to the big screen, largely due to Wilson’s insistence that an African-American direct the project. In what marks his third time behind…
Suicide Squad will go down as one of my biggest movie disappointments of 2016. I had high hopes for it, but in the end, Suicide Squad is a muddled mess. Sadder still, the 13-minutes of additional footage found on the…
The recent spate of musical biopics over the last decade or so tend to follow a formula: we meet a star at the height of his career, and flashback over his life, beginning with a deprived childhood. From there, life…
An ominous and unsettling thriller, the subject of Prisoners—young children in peril—demands the viewers undivided attention. Armed with intense performances and an engrossing mystery, few will find it easy to turn away. Oscar nominated director Denis Villeneuve (Incendies) explores just…
Given the success of the Twilight films, it comes as no surprise that nearly every subsequent movie that has any remote connection to the theme of supernatural romance is compared to the Stephanie Meyer juggernaut. Based on the novel by…
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, adapted from the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, centers on nine-year-old Oskar Schell who lost his beloved father in the World Trade Center collapse on 9/11. While some have suggested that using such a young…
Despite the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, and the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, institutionalized indenture existed in the southern United States throughout the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The black “help” were not simply housekeepers, but nannies to…
BURBANK, Calif., October 5, 2011 — The Help, the inspirational summer hit film people can’t stop talking about, arrives in homes just in time for the holidays, delivering this powerful story on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, DVD, Digital Download and On-Demand,…
20th Century Fox | 2010 | 109 mins. | PG-13 On the face of it, Knight and Day should have been box office gold. Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz starring in a comic caper/thriller sprinkled with romance. Unfortunately, director James…