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It’s 1950s in London’s West End, and the uber-popular stage show of Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” has reached a milestone with its 100th performance. Caddish American director Leo Kopernick (Adrien Brody, having some fun), who has been assigned to make the upcoming film adaptation, is basically a one-man hot...
When I walked out of the theater after seeing The Woman King, I marveled to a group of women, “This is such an interesting piece of history… I can’t believe there’s never been a movie made about these woman warriors!” A Black woman raised her eyebrow at me… “Really?...
There is a really great plot idea in Burial: In 1945, at the tail-end of World War II, a small band of Soviet soldiers is tasked with secretly hauling Hitler’s body across Poland where it will be put on a train to Moscow. Their great leader, Stalin, wants to...
Because Harry Styles has been missing from the media for a while, we thought we’d throw him a bone! But, no, we jest… :) My Policeman is a 1950s-based love triangle between a policeman Tom (Harry Styles), teacher Marion (Emma Corrin), and museum curator Patrick (David Dawson). From the...
Even though there have been a few staggering-out-of-the-pandemic box office sensations–from Spider-Man: No Way Home over the 2021-22 holidays, to the more recent massive big-screen blockbuster of Top Gun: Maverick–lots of people are staying at home to watch their movies instead of going to the theater. In a surprisingly...
In a world where alternative facts are news, and our attention span is about as long as a 15-second TikTok meme… it only makes sense that now is the time where we are finally rewarded with a Weird Al Yankovic biopic full of sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll....
The Uru-eu-wau-wau are an extremely small Indigenous tribe (population about 180) in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. Not contacted by “civilized” folks until the 1980s, they continue to live their lives just off the grid, in a protected part of the rainforest referred to as The Territory. They enjoy...
Considering how far in advance movies are made before the final edit and ultimate release to audiences, I’m sure the team behind the upcoming Call Jane are probably shocked at how timely the film has become. Following a suburban mother (Elizabeth Banks) who finds her life at risk over...
Since Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, and Robert Rodriguez and their ilk first started riddling the screen with rapid-fire dialogue to complement equally rapid-fire bullets, the quippy, self-aware ultra-violent action film has become ubiquitous. When done well, you laugh while trying to avoid having blood splash in your face. When...
Do you get claustrophobic? Do you have a fear of getting buried alive and/or drowning? Then Thirteen Lives may not be the most relaxing viewing for you. For the majority of this cave-rescue film, I had tucked my knees to my chin and covered my face with my hoodie...
Emmett Till was a sweet Chicago boy with a huge smile, that went on vacation to visit his cousins in Mississippi. But the 1950s South was very different than where he was from, and a misunderstanding with a white woman unleashed horrific vigilantism against Till from the white locals....
There is a moment in Nope, Jorden Peele’s latest in his surprising and very welcome career as a filmmaker: OJ (Daniel Kaluuya), a very mild-mannered rancher races home to find a giant, menacing UFO pouring blood onto his ranch house. He sits there in his truck stone-faced after quietly...
