The Zookeeper’s Wife is a period piece about the Warsaw Zoo’s husband-wife caretakers who trafficked hundreds of Jews out of the Nazi-controlled ghettos....
It seems like only yesterday when we could all have a good laugh at a fun movie without thinking about the coded messages those films were transmitting. Remember what it was like when the date-rape scene in Sixteen Candles and the other date-rape scene in Revenge of the Nerds or......
From the hills of San Francisco to the streets of Los Angeles, the Golden State plays a central character in many films throughout cinematic history. Sure, the ...
To understand how Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of an Ending might disappoint you if you’ve read the suspenseful, tear-jerking Julian Barnes novel on which it’s based, you should think back to Batra’s much-lauded debut feature The Lunchbox (2013). In that humanistic film, a young woman trapped in her marriage falls......
This year Laura Dern has significant roles in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, HBO's Big Little Lies, Showtime's Twin Peaks reboot, John Lee Hancock's The Founder, Craig Johnson's indie comedy Wilson, and Jennifer Fox's chilling personal drama The Tale....
Alice Lowe’s baby Della whacks two knives on the table as Lowe describes for me the nightmare she had before she knew she was pregnant: A horde of shadow selves in ninja gear were trying to kill her, and she had to battle Lowe after Lowe to survive. Lowe looks......
Almost no one ever asks young women what they desire — in movies or reality. Feminine cravings are still seen as a dire threat, a grand disturbance to the power structure, and the few movie men who dare speak the words “What do you want?” — like Noah in The......
Shirley MacLaine has been described by press and co-stars over the years as “rude,” “nasty,” “difficult” and “selfish.” Hell, she’s called herself impatient, caustic and much worse. None of that has stopped her from being a fiery mainstay in American screwball comedies and dramas. Her signature pixie cut came to......
There’s a reason Zoey Deutch is often “the girl” in comedies. Her face expresses multitudes, and the funny guys need a woman with priceless reactions to sell their punch lines. She’s endured dick jokes for Robert De Niro and Zac Efron in Dirty Grandpa, played oblivious straight woman to the......
In La La Land, director Damien Chazelle seems blind to the political power of film....
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