Widows is a fascinating hybrid of the arty from writer/director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and the pulpy from author and co-writer Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl). It’s both a sharp, action-filled heist film and a rumination...
Ravenous Harry Potter fans will likely feast in the often visually stunning Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, as it’s made just for them. The rest of us casual fans or disinterested parties will either be bored or...
The Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is simultaneously an odd addition to their oeuvre and yet perfectly in keeping with their wild, acerbic tone. The film was birthed as a television anthology of Western tales, a...
László Nemes is one of the most audacious filmmakers in international cinema. His sublime WWII drama Son of Saul powerfully demonstrated that film still plays a vital role in making sense of the nonsensical. With his latest, Sunse...
I’m sure I’ve said this before, but it’s terribly evident that The Flash simply cannot sustain seasons that are 23 episodes long. We’re only five entries into the current one, and already the individual plo...
One would think that artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel would be perfectly primed to provide a cinematic look at the life of another iconoclastic artist, Vincent van Gogh. With At Eternity’s Gate, the director strives to p...
Marcelino Islas Hernández’s strange, affecting film Clases de Historia (History Lessons) is a darkly comic tale about a teacher’s burgeoning friendship with a young student. It has elements that draw from the likes of ...
Amazon’s darkly comic spy thriller Patriot largely flew under the radar during its first season last year, never quite building the hype or buzz of the streaming network’s higher-profile shows. (I’d estimate it h...
Having written about so many horror flicks for this column, it’s little wonder that I’d eventually feel compelled to give another genre a shot. In doing so, I inadvertently wound up picking a movie featuring more disme...
Rick Grimes is gone, and yet The Walking Dead limps on. Now that we’ve officially entered the post-Rick era, has anything meaningful actually changed?
Between Blu-ray and Ultra HD, a deep selection of nearly a hundred movie and TV titles hit disc this week. That’s a lot to go through, so let’s dive right in.
As Dr. Seuss’ dastardly Grinch gets adapted for the third time (once in television and twice in feature films), our Roundtable this week will look at other beloved children’s books that have successfully transitioned f...
