With the quickest blink or nervy glance, Roberts communicates to us both what her character, an ordinary woman named Holly Burns, has convinced everyone around her to think she’s feeling but also all of her secret doubts, fury and anguish
True to the spirit of the chipper, somewhat aimless live-action Disney day killers that inspired it, Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns gets better the further it wanders from its actual story.
Not incidental to Aquaman’s pleasures is its vision of a mixed-race hero, played by a mixed-race actor, fighting to protect and understand clashing aspects of his heritage
With Tim Tebow’s celebrity influence and his brother Robby Tebow’s guidance and football expertise, Jake McEntire’s script about two brothers growing up in the South was coming to life at a live football game. “When you have Tim Tebow as one of the producers … it’s very helpful,” says Jake…
The January, February and March months of 2019 are already boasting a strong slate, with U.S. distribution of international festival favorites along with welcome returns of first-rate genre filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan and Jordan Peele
As you enter the lobby of one particular movie theater in Plano, you’ll see all your favorite movie refreshments: soda and candy and dog treats. K9 Cinemas is the only theater designed specifically for dog owners to bring their pets along for a movie night. Eric Lankford, the creator of…
The actresses share only one scene in the film, but Mary Queen of Scots sets them up in counterpoint, two divergent approaches to the question of how women who wield power can actually govern the men around them
The film plays as if a three-hour epic has been sliced down to size in the editing, but only the scenes establishing character and context have been cut
Dee Simmons doesn’t really give a rip. Or a dog’s rip. Or a flip. Or a rat’s ass. Dee Simmons is the larger-than-life, all-knowing and all-giving woman of Dallas society, and she isn’t concerned about what anyone thinks of her. It’s a Friday afternoon when Simmons’ housekeeper opens the front…
It sets a host of alternative Spider-folk running amok in the New York City of Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, the mixed-race Spider-Man (his father is black and his mother Latinx) invented for the comics in 2011 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli
Please don’t click off this article because you think you are too good for reality TV. You turn nose up at the thought of Dallas women mouthing off at one another. And you think it’s sad some desperate Dallas woman went on TV to get married. Please. You’re not too…
The writer-director shot Roma in chronological order, without showing the cast the script, unveiling it to the actors the same way it is for the audience, piece by piece, a chance to marinate in each moment as it plays out
This time, though, the lessons are urgent, the jungle threatened by man, the wicked tiger Shere Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) a true terror vowing to one day taste that boy’s blood
Today, I’m still awed by the film’s scope and scale, by its relentless energy and attention to detail, by its interest in faces and names and coats and belongings
Mark Cuban’s days as owner of the Landmark Theatres have come to an end. Cuban and 2929 Entertainment partner Todd Wagner sold the collection of theaters to Cohen Media Group for an undisclosed figure. Cuban and Wagner bought Landmark Theatres in 2003 under 2929 Entertainment. As reported by The Hollywood…
And much of the present-day free-skate footage, shot at what have come to be known as “Adult Nights” at skating rinks, also proves invigorating, an invitation to relish the momentum, the joy and the peacocking pride of grown-up skaters
This time, we meet the sharecropping peasants of the remote village of Inviolata, living lives of seasonal toil, lives that look — except for the occasional radio or lightbulb — like they might have a century or so ago
On last week’s episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas, when it was said that LeeAnne Locken threatened to clone Brandi Redmond’s phone, many of the women were left confused. Turns out, phone cloning dates back to car phones when you could get physically close enough to a phone and…
It’s the early 18th century, there’s a war on with France, and the persistently ill, somewhat childish Anne struggles both to assert her authority and to preserve her kingdom and her crown
In typical Coen fashion, most people in the movie meet ironic or wry deaths, but this time the Coens seem to be actively eschewing any deeper emotional connection between the audience and the characters
The story concerns sort of a play date between the kids fathered by the first generation of Rocky boxers: Creed versus the son of Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago, who in Rocky IV was built up as pretty much the most devastating weapon in the Soviet nuclear arsenal
Volf supports his interpretation of Callas’ personality with sound bites from her understandably guarded televised appearances, all of which devolve into terse discussions about her years-long romance with Onassis (before and after his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
