Are they here to help us or are they here to hurt us? That’s the crux of Arrival from the start to finish of the 1-hour, 56-minute science fiction offering from director Denis Villeneuve and screenwriter Eric Heisserer. Taken from the short story The Story of My Life by Ted Chiang, this is a they-came-from-outer-space…
Be ready to suspend plenty of disbelief for the Marvel Universe’s new superhero. Doctor Strange starts with one doozie of a spell. Benedict Cumberbatch leaves his Brit accent at home to become the arrogant Manhattan neurosurgeon! In fact, that imposing star is just the start of many great chess pieces for director/writer Scott Derrickson to…
Ben Stiller’s character Josh is somewhat futilely teaching a college class about film, as makers of documentaries who somehow find themselves tip-toeing into their mid-40s while still working on his second piece for close to a decade now. Damn that malfunctioning PowerPoint. After, a robust young couple engage him in conversation about his lecture, and…
Sometime in our not-too-distant but definitely dusty future, the folks living in the farm belt are having one heck of a time turning out the crops. Blight is hitting everything that used to feed their fellow Americans, it becomes quite clear early on during Interstellar, as a family with a determined man played so well…
Ben Affleck takes this complex accountant he’s given a long, long way. It’s not a simple nor easy journey. We learn from a series of flashbacks in the script by Bill Dubuque and direction of Gavin O’Connor that as a kid, this number-crunching guy by the name of Christian Wolff had it tough. As he…
As the complex tale of all things bouncing around the tortured mind of Rachel began to unfold under the direction on Tate Taylor, I squirmed. Would I be able to withstand 112 minutes this slow? Unlike my dear wife Karen next to me for the 7:10 p.m. Friday show in the solidly filled Regal Cinemas…
The stars are aligned for big laughs. Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon are the two main women in the tale, and Leslie Jones has a major role as well. If you’re keeping score at home, that means Masterminds employs three-quarters of the cast of the latest Ghostbusters – and the ones that were funnier than…
You think it’s bad when your tipsy uncle won’t take the hint and go home when you turn the lights off when everybody else knows the holiday party is going, going, gone? Think about the plight of the London guy who saw his driveway chosen by the senior woman who’d chosen his neighborhood as the…
Remember when you were lost, swimming in teen angst, and when you put on a record that black spinning vinyl acted like an oval orange lifesaver? John Carney surely does. The writer and director of Sing Street sweetly shares those tumultuous feelings with a 1-hour, 46-minute treat that’s part drama, part comedy, part musical and…
How’d you like it if you just pulled off the most miraculous move of your career, in the front of the clenched-shut eyes of 153 souls and most likely wide-open eyes of their highest Power, just to have your judgment-makers on a smug bureaucratic panel insist you made the wrong decision? Meet Chesley Sullenberger. That’s…
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