The spirit of the aberrant woman behind the religious sect known as the Shakers inhabits Amanda Seyfried in “The Testament of Ann Lee.” Directed by Mona Fastvold and co-written by Brady Corbet…
Tom Gormican’s “Anaconda” is another slice of millennial nostalgia with the added touch of mocking that very same obsession with the past. If you grew up in the 1990s and watched movies,…
The ongoing renaissance of music biopics continues to deliver cinematic interpretations of legendary chart-toppers. “Song Sung Blue” becomes an engrossing addition by not focusing on some cultural icon. Its subjects are the…
Marty Mauser is one of those characters who feels so vivid that you wonder how he could ever be fiction. Timothée Chalamet brings him to gloriously self-assured life in “Marty Supreme,” driving…
The first two films in legendary filmmaker James Cameron’s “Avatar” saga broke box office records and introduced technological breakthroughs in cinema. While audiences had to wait 13 years between those movies, Cameron now…
Bradley Cooper takes blending comedy and tragedy quite seriously in “Is This Thing On?” It is a welcome downscaling for the actor-director, whose previous work profiled relationships within the grand world of…
Kate Winslet’s “Goodbye June” is a family affair in nearly every aspect. The plot is one of those recognizable heart-tuggers about a clan of relatives coming together to process their issues while…
When legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” first opened on Broadway in 1981, the results were quite disastrous. Critics thrashed the production and it closed after only two…