When we first meet the man in the center of Arctic, he’s scratching in the snow. Pull away. More. He’s writing a message he hopes will catch the attention of somebody, anybody. S O S We never find out the name of the guy stranded when his plane crashed in the middle of these snowy…
There are many reasons that people enter the doors of their favorite public library every day. The programs. The WiFi. The computers. The magazines. The books, still and even. The feeling of community. I see it in the faces and hear it in the voices as I make the rounds for my job in the…
We meet the star at a low point, marching into an anonymous meeting in which he obviously can’t and won’t be. Dressed to the hilt in the stage finery and carrying all the stories that made him Elton John, the man proceeds to tell the folks in the circle of chairs all of the addictions…
When it came time to give the Disney resources to the remaking of Aladdin, director Guy Ritchie went big. After all, he had the legend of the late, great Robin Williams voicing the magical genie in the 1992 version. So in this live-action reboot, that pivotal part fell to Will Smith. And he knocks it…
The big-con buddy movie surely is not new to Hollywood. In fact, this year’s The Hustle takes its cue from two generational films before it: Bedtime Story with Marlon Brando and David Niven in 1964 and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin and Michael Caine in 1988. Directed by Chris Addison from the screenplay by…
Can this group of longtime friends take a trip to wine country to celebrate a 50th birthday and truly have a good time? That’s the premise behind Amy Poehler’s directorial debut. Wine Country, made with its Netflix run primarily in mind, comes from the pens of Emily Spivey and Liz Cackowski, but Poehler’s story credit…
Can they really get along? Yes, the buddy movie is a cornerstone of what we’re served from the flickering image decision-making world. Tried-and-true or merely the easy route? There are so many answers along the scale, I thought after I picked up The Upside from my library’s collection, drawn by the names Kevin Hart and…
Can the true tale of a real, live WWE wrestler really be sweet and tender? Well, as far as these things can go, Fighting for My Family did put a bit of a lump in my throat, and not from any sort of chop to the Adam’s apple, either. Directed and written by Stephen Merchant,…
In The Mule, Clint Eastwood plays a 90-year-old guy who has a hard time getting along with the world. That’s not a stretch for this most recognizable rasp of a voice and mug, not in age nor familiar storyline. In this true tale directed by Eastwood himself from a screenplay Nick Schenk based on the…
The premise of a floppy-eared elephant taking to the air has been in the collective consciousness of movie-loving generations since Disney made Dumbo in 1941. Lest you forget, in that one-minute-longer than an hour classic, the baby elephant so cruelly orphaned from its mother does not learn to soar until six minutes from the finish.…
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