When conceiving his new film, “First Love,” director A.J. Edwards wanted to tell a different kind of young romance. Teenage attraction tends to belong in the YA genre, where candy-colored films…
If you are an inventor plagued by loneliness, maybe the best solution is to simply create a best friend from found items. “Brian and Charles,” is a quirky exercise in oddball comedy…
For actors Adria Arjona and Diego Boneta, getting to star in “Father of the Bride” was about much more than re-telling a classic story. To them, this is a chance…
Eugenio Derbez and Samara Weaving are an unlikely pairing in “The Valet.” a romantic comedy about a movie star, Olivia Allan (Weaving), who agrees to date a virtual stranger, valet…
Few television shows have achieved the level of cultural impact as “Downton Abbey.” Just three and a half months after its September 2010 debut in the U.K., it made a splash on…
There are certain events that in hindsight encapsulated a lot more than what was obvious at the time. In Stefan Forbes’ documentary, “Hold Your Fire,” a New York City heist and…
As technology advances we as humans are increasingly living double lives. There’s our existence in the real world of flesh and blood and then there’s the reality we create for ourselves in the…
Amazon’s absorbing biopic “Being the Ricardos,” takes the viewer inside the world of Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and her husband and “I Love Lucy” co-star Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem), showing…
Two years after he garnered worldwide acclaim for his starring role in the Oscar-winning war drama “1917,” British actor George MacKay delivers another impressive performance in Nathalie Biancheri’s “Wolf.” MacKay stars…
For his latest feature documentary, “Flee,” filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen did not have to look far to find his subject, Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym), his close friend and refugee originally from…
Few athletes, male or female, have achieved the level of success Venus and Serena Williams have, and for almost three decades, the pair have served as role models for young athletes,…
Action movies like “Copshop” thrive on pure attitude. This one has enough to spare with a crackling, sarcastic script and the trio that makes up its key cast. Gerard Butler and…