The life story of a seemingly ordinary man is at the center of “Train Dreams,” the beautiful and haunting second feature from Clint Bentley. The story of protagonist Robert Grainer (Joel Edgerton),…
Brendan Fraser continues to take his craft to the next level in Hikari’s affecting comedy-drama “Rental Family.” The Oscar winner plays Phillip Vandarploeug, a middling American actor living in Japan. Phillip has…
Darker and driven by grandiose feelings, “Wicked: For Good” concludes director Jon M. Chu’s stirring fantasy that, in the end, proves to have always been about the intricacies of friendship. Chu’s adaptation…
George Clooney has arrived at the stage where he can now play an aging star reflecting on the tableaux of his life. This particular genre of storytelling is all about time, since being…
It has been the season of the witch for a while now when it comes to horror films. As if a spell were cast over every development meeting, hyper real versions of paganism…
Maybe Stephen King was ahead of the curve all along. Famous for his horror novels, King has lately seen a cinematic and TV surge of his dystopias. It could be because they tap…
A story like that of Christy Martin has a wrenchingly tragic irony at its heart. As a ferociously talented boxer who could easily knock out an opponent, she found herself for years gripped…
The evils of the Nazi Party were so horrifying that World War II has provided an easy crop of go-to villains ever since Adolf Hitler was defeated. Few dramas have tried to truly…