Taking place over the course of one revelatory night, three generations of the Blake family gather together to celebrate Thanksgiving at Brigid (Beanie Feldstein) and her partner Richard’s (Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun) cramped lower Manhattan apartment. As the evening slowly unfolds, each family member’s frustrations and insecurities are laid bare …
It’s not often a director remakes their own film, and even rarer for a feature to be reimagined in short form. Pedro Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and The Human Voice both share as their source material Jean Cocteau’s one-act monodrama La Voix Humaine. With a …
With less than thirty hours to save the twenty-six excavators trapped in a diamond mine cave-in, it’s up to Mike (Liam Neeson) and five other truckers to undertake a suicide mission by transporting, across the coldest region of Canada, three trucks containing the wellhead needed to save the day. Chances …
Infidelity and feminism are its core objectives, but you’ll have to wait for first-time writer-director Geeta Malik to set aside her “chick-flick” cravings before she addresses the more pressing issues at hand. Over summer break, Alia (Sophia Ali) learns that her mother gave up her activist ways for a cushy …
More than the direction and screenplay, the bulk of the praise for the overall look and polish of the staging deserves to be shared by cinematographer Alice Brooks, production designer Nelson Coates, and location scouts Kendall Waldman and Matthew H. Wiesner. This is how to open up a play for …
More than the direction and screenplay, the bulk of the praise for the overall look and polish of the staging deserves to be shared by cinematographer Alice Brooks, production designer Nelson Coates, and location scouts Kendall Waldman and Matthew H. Wiesner. This is how to open up a play for …
Melodrama combines with a scarcely populated subgenre of my own creation — narratives that don’t get around to flipping their hold cards until minutes before the house lights rise — to fashion a 66-minute masterwork that, in its own subtle fashion, ponders the emboldenment of humanity. The audience is hit …
Dutch feature starring Sarah Blaßkiewitz.
Instead of getting love as a child, she got angry. Years later, Lindy’s (Kete Beckinsale) shrink (Stanley Tucci) diagnoses her ailment as intermittent explosive disorder, a condition that causes her to fly off the handle at even the slightest disturbance. Dating was difficult to say the least — until a …
From one man of integrity to another comes director Denzel Washington's adaptation of an essay penned by Charles Monroe King (Michael B. Jordan). 1st Sgt. King kept a journal for his son to be read in the event he didn't return from Baghdad. This is his story.
By far the most controversial aspect surrounding the Julia Child biodoc is its production company (CNN, not PBS). One guesses PBS shied away based solely on filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s assertion that ageists at the top were poised to put out to pasture the world’s most beloved and …
The ride offers more motivation and depth of character than the movie. Think The African Queen if Katherine Hepburn had to ward off computer generated marine life and Bogey had a 25-inch neck. With no story to speak of other than finding an arrowhead, the plot experiences more climaxes than …