A Private War is a docudrama that shifts from London to tumultuous war zones that took a toll on its intrepid, anguished lead character. A frizzy red-coiffed, gravelly American-accented Rosamund Pike is well cast as the boozy, headstrong, celebrated ‘Sunday Times’ correspondent Marie Colvin, maybe the more disheveled, eye-patched cousin of Veronica Guerin. Matthew Heineman brings a distinguished, […]
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Boy Erased
Joel Edgerton displays a judicious prudence in his follow-up after the unpleasantly effective trappings of The Gift (2015). Boy Erased stars Lucas Hedges (Manchester By The Sea, Lady Bird), Russell Crowe, and Nicole Kidman, as well as the Aussie helmsman who’s been in films like Red Sparrow and Loving, among many others over the past two decades. […]
What They Had
Elizabeth Chomko’s new dementia movie is seriocomic and affectionately drawn, even though it more often than not it gets into a rut through the difficulties and diversions which form from its treatment. What They Had stars Hilary Swank, Taissa Farmiga, Blythe Danner, Robert Forster, and Michael Shannon, and discerning folks watching it may be reminded of films […]
Overlord
The experience of Julius Avery’s Overlord is destined to appease gamers and those fascinated with the undead (from 28 Days Later to the long-running small-screen series The Walking Dead) from a historical, jingoistic stance. Uber-producer J.J. Abrams, known for his many projects from Cloverfield to Star Trek to the latest Star Wars trilogy beginning with The Force Awakens, is major creative force […]
Halloween 2018
Four decades after John Carpenter’s seminal horror movie comes a well-deserved sequel that appropriately lets go of what ensued. The new slow-to-get-going ‘direct sequel’ that is Halloween proves that Michael Myers isn’t just a vacuous, nightmarish force of nature while shifting Laurie Strode front and center.The older middle-age woman has an implacable paranoia that has remained since the […]