Tag: film

The new Pixar film “Coco” won the hearts of millions after its release in theaters on Thanksgiving Day. Pixar’s best film since “Toy Story 3,”…

Action star Frank Grillo is no stranger to taking the role of a badass. You may recognize him from “The Purge” series, the critically acclaimed…

The most dispiriting thing about “Detroit” is how it reminds us of how things haven’t changed, even in the years of Black Lives Matter. Directors…

Movie adaptations of novels have become more and more prevalent. Unfortunately, this is both a blessing and a curse because the quality of movie adaptations…

If I were a professor at an all-mutant school and the “X-Men” franchise were a mathematical equation with “X” being the constant and I asked…

The 89th Academy Awards premieres Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. and I’m here to give you a handy-dandy preview of Hollywood’s biggest night of the…

The Oscars have always been political. Think about the various controversies over films such as “American Sniper,” “Zero Dark Thirty” or “Crash.” Of course this…

Nadine Byrd is not having the best time. Her life is already terrible enough just being a teenage girl in her junior year of high…

The best way to describe Kelly Reichardt’s new film “Certain Women” is literary fiction made visual. Watching the images appear on screen, it’s easy to…

The city of Los Angeles and film noir go together like peanut butter and jelly, Sonny and Cher, or Bogart and jewel-encrusted falcons from Malta.…