• May 8, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Romance

In pop culture entertainment, success always spans copycats, and it seems especially so with young adult books and movies these days. From over-intellectualizing self-aware teens, to 16-year-olds struggling to...

• May 7, 2019
• At Home, Drama

Lucas Hedges stars as Jared Eamons, a happy if conflicted 19-year-old freshman and the son of devout Baptists Marshall (Russell Crowe) and Nancy (Nicole Kidman). But when Jared finds...

• May 7, 2019
• At Home, Drama, War

Tracking the latter years of Colvin’s astonishing career with London’s Sunday Times and her collaboration with war photographer Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan), the film follows the tenacious, seemingly fearless...

• May 7, 2019
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

To prepare to see Glass, I watched Split over the weekend. I found it to be a tight film with a fantastic performance by James McAvoy as a psychopath...

• May 6, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Mystery

Jong-su (Ah-In Yoo), an amiable slacker meets-cute with cute Hae-mi (Jong-seo Jeon) one day. He’s the kind of passive but friendly kind of guy who can get steamrolled by...

• May 3, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Romance

I’m sure I’m not the only one to notice the sub-genre of romantic comedies where a completely neurotic, dorky, egotistical New York white male becomes romantic catnip to an...

• May 3, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Mystery

Octogenarian Judi Dench can do it all. She can play smart, fierce and sexy (see her in the more recent James Bond films). She can be a queen (a...

• April 26, 2019
• At Home, Crime, Drama

The term “Stockholm Syndrome” where the captured feel an affinity with and identify with their captors (think of Patty Hearst for instance), has been around in the media so...

• April 24, 2019
• At Home, Drama

There is a scene in Wildlife that surprises with its quiet fury. A teenage boy (Ed Oxenbould) is brought to the edge of a wildfire that his father has...

• April 24, 2019
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

Avengers: Endgame doesn’t have much faith in the resilience of humanity. Five years after Thanos (Josh Brolin) made half of Earth’s (and the universe’s) population disintegrate into ash with...

• April 23, 2019
• At Home, Drama

There’s a scene in this lush but strangely hollow biopic of the titular monarch that finds its heroine (Saoirse Ronan) meeting her estranged cousin, Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie),...

• April 16, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

McCarthy stars as Israel, an acerbic, exceedingly grumpy (to her own detriment) writer with mounting debt and a problem with alcohol, whose career hits the skids after a streak...