Category: Film

The big, beautiful house always sticks in Jimmie’s mind, sometimes in reality and always in his dreams.

Oooooh, they're eating at Heid's!

Brian Dennehy pulls the switch off with equal reluctance, acceptance, recognition and charm in the most marvelous little independent film Driveways.

Raoul Peck directed I Am Not Your Negro from the words and mind of James Baldwin in 2016.

The decade in which the incidents that Just Mercy are based upon is the 1980s.

Sometimes the best of us can get lost without really identifying the when’s, why’s and how’s.

If you’ve ever owned a dog, wanted to own a dog or petted a dog you passed on the street corner, bring at least one full box of Kleenex to...

A lot of really bad things could happen if all the power in the world went out at once.

How much of a good thing is too much?

The big-con buddy movie surely is not new to Hollywood. In fact, this year’s The Hustle takes its cue from two generational films before it: Bedtime Story with Marlon Brando...

Two films released in 2018 told the gigantic story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Picture a hostage situation where everybody gets along inside the gates.

At the start of Green Book, we see Tony “Lip” Vallelonga operating through famed Manhattan nightclub The Copa as if he owned the joint.

Bad guys foiled by the guy played by Dwayne Johnson?

If you lived through and paid any sort of attention to the real life and times of one Freddie Mercury and the band he led called Queen, you should recall...

Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong stepped down that Apollo 11 ladder and made history.

In the fifth(!) installment of the movie series first adapted 28(!!) years ago from Michael Crichton’s forward- and backward-thinking novel Jurassic Park, the island set aside for the dinosaurs is...

Old Man and the Gun review

Imagine, if you will, a grown-up Christopher Robin ear-deep in a dilemma. He lives in London with a wife and daughter. He’s in charge of the family luggage company.

The joy of ABBA’s music surely lives on with Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

Stop, in the name of love!

Tell Shailene Woodley that she’s Tami Oldham, and the actress is all in.

There’s so much going for The 15:17 to Paris.

Danny Ocean is gone, we find out in the fourth installment of the franchise that made his last name and big crime game famous, but his sister Debbie is fresh...

The story about the making of this particular monster really is quite a dilly.

So a middle-aged set of parents drop their daughter off for her senior year at college, and as soon as they reach the car for the ride back home, hubby...

As the wonderful, honorable stars do their reliably solid work in Book Club, I’m still not ever quite all there.

Life sure didn’t come easy for young Bart Millard.

Everything about The Greatest Showman comes off quite grand.

If you were a card-carrying kid of the 1960s or 70s, A Wrinkle in Time most likely made its way into your holy-cow discussions. Library card, that is.

You bet that Black Panther goes where no superhero movie ever previously dared.

There is no fake news in The Post. Weak-kneed journalists need not apply as the president and his justice department followers attempt to put the clamps on a free press.

Before Thurgood Marshall could become one of the icons of American culture by righting so many injustices and becoming the first African American Supreme Court Justice, the young attorney had...

The history lessons in Darkest Hour shine various lights on Winston Churchill, the King and his Empire, and the oh-so-many players linked to them in the days that Adolph Hitler’s...

Don’t let the fact that The Breadwinner uses the format of animation to drive home its message fool you.

Just imagine if your family beat down your dream at every turn. And I mean your extended family. Parents, grandparents, cousins, the whole mass of generations.

Nate and Isabel Pullman know they have something special with their son Auggie. The kid’s a true delight marching around in his NASA astronaut helmet, brandishing his love for space...

Get the bigs and littles together for a feel-good viewing of Ferdinand, why don’t you? The bull who first made a name for himself in the picture-book world of Munro...

Only the Brave was ripped from the news. So anybody who followed the course of the Yarnell Fire of 2013 or the GQ story No Exit by Sean Flynn from...

The Walker four and the Blackett pair are most definitely British kids floating around in their boats on the lake they reluctantly share in Swallows and Amazons.

Some things are not supposed to happen. An aging and bored queen eats herself into a stupor at a feast in her honor until a 24-year-old Indian clerk marches up...

Genius has no limits, Henry figured, even when you’re 10 years old and raising your mother and little brother.

There was no getting away from the unbearable tension at Dunkirk those striking days during World War II when the German forces had the Allied troops sealed off on the...

If you lived through the ‘70s, the phrase Battle of the Sexes is no stranger. Women were working hard to get their just due, and certain men were quite reluctant...

For the front portion of Maud’s life, oh, so much tried to make a point that she wasn’t worth the effort.

Life is sort of smooth for this Mexican flock as the papa and mama birds pull off their magic in making the family circus work as their son Cuco pays...

And one of the glories of the movie is we get to see why in bits and pieces of flashback to Ove’s youth growing up virtually in a train yard...

Kaili Blues presents a poetic prism on modern Chinese cinema.

Teens being teens, they both want more. Especially Maddy, who longs to actually go to the ocean, which by the looks of things, can’t be so far from this gorgeous...

You can’t help rooting for James to turn his life around for good. And for Bob to come out OK, too.