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I'm not sure what a great Whitney Houston movie would look like. Like so many before, she was an extremely talented and massively successful artist whose drug abuse ended up destroying her at too youn…
Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) is a martial arts master, but he is tired and wants to live a quiet life. Deciding to give up his sword, Green Destiny, Li Mu Bai requests that his devoted friend Shu Lien (Mi…
Everyone loves a feel-good movie based on a true story... the more outlandish the pretense, the better. And now that we are in the post-holiday movie doldrums, what sounds better than a feel-good budd…
You can never accuse Toni Collette of not bringing it to every performance. We learn in the opening scene of the 8-part true-crime drama The Staircase that Collette's Kathleen Peterson has been found …
Halloween Ends finds Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) living some semblance of the life she might have had if Michael Myers hadn’t murdered her closest friends and terrorized her town over forty years…
I loathe films such as The Banshees Of Inisherin. Oh, I love a good tragedy; I'm a sucker for 'em. But a senseless tragedy? Feck that. Isn't life full enough of that already? Granted, Banshees has …
It doesn't bode well for Babylon that one of the earliest shots in the film is a "git on in there" view of an elephant explosively pooping right onto the camera lens. I guess that isn't much worse tha…
I went in to Avatar: The Way of Water admittedly very cynical. Let's just put it this way: I kind of hated 2009's Avatar. I was annoyed by the silly, cartoony script. I was creeped out by the uncanny …
Before seeing All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, I was unfamiliar with photographer Nan Goldin's art but I had heard about her group's activism. In the last few years, as hundreds of thousands of Ameri…
Writer/director Ol Parker certainly knows his way around a breezy comedy with heart. Here at Moviepie, we've been big fans of his work from Imagine Me & You, to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, to …
Ellis (Jeremy Pope), a sweet 20-something gay Black man with a dimpled smile, whiles away his days at an urban homeless shelter. While watching TV one evening, he sees images of post-9/11 troops in ba…
The parental figures in The Fabelmans are apparently based squarely on director Steven Spielberg's own mom and dad. In their idyllic 1950s home, mom Mitzi (Michelle Williams) is the artistic free spir…