According to intelligence expert Malcolm Nance, “Prior to Trump, every president maintained the continuity on how the constitution was upheld and defended.” Life changed the day after the inauguration, when presidential water bearer and spinner of “alternative facts” Kellyanne Conway grossly overestimated the number of attendees. It was her Trump-hating …
A kid with trouble for a father and a father whose son wants nothing to do with him fill the gaps in each other’s lives in this tough but tender road picture. “Always know where the cue ball will wind up after the shot,” says pool hustler Cal (Jeffrey Dean …
The story is based on Robert Kimmel Smith’s bestselling children’s novel; the family it presents is strictly standard issue. Circumstances force retired architect Ed (Robert De Niro) to move in with his daughter's (Uma Thurman) family. It’s grandson Peter (Oakes Fegley) whose anger kicks off the so-called conflict. In an …
Alcoholism and coaching a high school basketball team don't mix in this latest inspirational true life sports drama. Ben Affleck stars.
A top military official, a silk merchant (Issey Takahashi), and his titular bride, all childhood friends, stop short of forming a romantic triangle in the latest from Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata). It's being pitched as an “old-school Hitchcockian thriller.” The Master has been dead over 40 years. It's …
A traffic accident ends with the car overturned and Ida’s (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) alcoholic mother dead behind the wheel. That leaves the State no choice but to award custody of the 17-year-old girl to her loan shark Aunt Bobil (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and three male cousins, all schooled in the …
Please excuse the disadvantaged viewpoint, but having never read Roald Dahl’s source novel nor seen Nicolas Roeg’s 1990 big screen adaptation, it’s difficult to determine how much of the dark appeal of Robert Zemeckis’ remake can be attributed to the filmmaker. The setting’s been modified from England to Alabama at …
The ten-minute tournament — an over-produced Decathlon after the fashion of TV’s American Ninja Warrior — does nothing but rehash past glory and pad a hulking two-and-a-half hour (!) running time. Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) now works as a high level anthropologist at the Smithsonian. It’s here that she meets …
First-time director Robert Jury finds suspense amidst the humdrum, and love among the rubble of a marriage put on hold. After decades at a routine job for a Rust Belt plastics company, our titular laborer learns that his home away from home is shuttering. But that doesn’t stop him from …
There was a time in the mid-’90s when people would have killed to be David Arquette. With the rapidity of a Gatling gun, he cranked out what appeared to be a trio of career-determining performances: the jaundiced rebel in Robert Rodriguez’s Roadracers (the director’s rapid-fire teensploitation contribution to Showtime’s fine …