True to “My Life on the Road,” the 2015 autobiography that director Julie Taymor uses for inspiration, a good portion of the film takes place in Greyhounds and train cars, their wheels a rolling throughline linking past with present. It’s not uncommon to find two performers cast as the same …
It’s the smart pusher who doesn’t use. At least not knowingly as in the case of Dov (Shlomo Bar-Aba), a 75-year-old widower who after less than a week in a posh retirement center is already scraping a tin cup against the bars of his gated community. Dov blames the eviction …
With the world poised to suffer the fate of immolation by the red-hot remnants of an errant comet, the government earmarks a select group of civilians, based on their occupations, to evacuate their families to Greenland and begin rebuilding the wreckage. Among the chosen: John Garrity (Gerard Butler), a structural …
"It" girl Sophia Lillis tries her hand at opening a horror franchise of her own. Leaving a trail of breadcrumbs between your seat and the exit door might be in order in case you decide to bail.
Toward the outset of World War II, a devoutly religious but in-over-his-head Navy captain (Tom Hanks) leads a military escort of Allied ships though the North Atlantic — with a wolfpack of six Nazi U-boats hot on their tail. At a time when starring roles for middle-aged heroes are at …
A remake of a remake and its sequel. Who says Hollywood is starving for originality?
The tension between public perception and private history is always at the core of Egoyan’s work. Jim (David Thewlis) is a persnickety, permanently punched-in city health inspector. Though not a religious man, when his time came, the widower left instructions with his daughter Veronica (Laysla de Oliveira) that he be …
Harper (Mackenzie Davis) invites Abby (Kristen Stewart) to meet her parents and two sisters, all of whom are are operating under false pretenses: Abby was assured by Harper that her potential in-laws would be accepting of their “lifestyle choice,” while the clan are firm believers that a gay daughter has …
The personal assistant (Dakota Johnson, relaxed and confident) to a megastar headliner (Tracee Ellis Ross, peerless-ish) at the crossroads of Vegas residency and cutting a live greatest hits album tries branching out by guiding the career of a promising singer (Kelvin Harrison Jr.). Considering the error margin potential inherent in …
Growing up Opie, the closest Ron Howard came to an addictive personality was town drunk Otis Campbell. Considering the amount of time Howard spent in Mayberry — and with almost three-dozen benignant features to his credit — one would be wrong to expect more spit and less polish in this …
A comedy about a third term congresswoman named Joo Sang-sook (Ra Mi-ran) who is an expert liar, but one day she can’t lie anymore, with only a day to go before the elections. Starring Ra Mi-Ran, Kim Moo-Yeol, Na Moon-Hee, and Yoon Kyung-Ho.