"The Big Short” in review: The fire next time
The film version of Michael Lewis' non-fiction book "The Big Short" is a high percentage earner in the Great Recession sweepstakes.
"The Revenant": Voice in the wilderness
"The Revenant" is a powerful, soaring reverie of love, duty, and survival . . . an environmentalist's epic.
Here's why you should go see “Trumbo”
If you haven't seen "Trumbo", check your movie listings, run to the nearest theater, and check it out.
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" tackles racism, misogyny, men’s “daddy issues”
"The Force Awakens" brings a contemporary twist to the beloved classic series.
"The Green Inferno" is new low in racist film making
Filmmaker Eli Roth, who specializes in the horror genre, has no problem time traveling in the wrong direction.
Dalton Trumbo, the “Spartacus” screenwriter who broke the blacklist
Dalton Trumbo, the jailed screenwriter who broke the Hollywood Blacklist, is making a comeback in a superb biopic.
Rampling and Courtenay: The past preserved haunts the present in “45 Years”
Andrew Haigh's film is a profoundly stirring one about a longtime married couple poignantly portrayed by two cinema greats.
“Mediterranea": Europe’s embattled migrants on film
"Mediterranea" succeeds in putting the stateless, the homeless, and the wretched of the Earth in the limelight they deserve.
Spike Lee’s "Chiraq" spotlights Chicago gun violence
"Chiraq" is described as exploring the epidemic of gun violence on the South Side of Chicago, and black-on-black violence.
“Embrace of the Serpent”: Odyssey into Amazonian "heart of darkness”
Inter-species interaction between outer space aliens and human beings has long been a staple of the science fiction genre.
