When the world needs to send someone to space, they depend on Ryan Gosling.
He’s done it twice now: initially in 2018, portraying Neil Armstrong in director Damien Chazelle’s “First Man,” and...
Starting with the Cannes Film Festival in May, the film awards season is finally coming to a close with the Academy Awards. It’s been an exciting season, with every contender and pretender experiencing...
What would you do to reclaim something that was stolen from you?
Most of us would probably be embarrassed to answer what we’d do for a Klondike bar, let alone the $28 billion fortune that Becket Redfellow...
When reviewing this annual list in its final form, I’m always amazed at how disparate each entry appears on the surface. In one corner is a wistful comedy about an aging movie star, while the other features...
There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and that James Cameron will defy all the doubters. 20th Century Fox was reluctant to make a sequel to Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” only to be swayed...
Congratulations are in order for Timothée Chalamet for finding a sports movie that he can believably headline. It’s seemingly a rite of passage for any leading star in Hollywood, spanning all the way...
Gary Cooper: Jay Kelly. Cary Grant: Jay Kelly. Clark Gable: Jay Kelly. George Clooney: Jay Kelly. Not since “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” has a movie been about the actor playing the character...
Not that the one-letter difference was totally throwing everyone for a loop, but the opening script to “Hamnet,” director Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell’s book of the same name, states...
From its plucky opening strings by Jónsi and Alex Somers and twinkling cinematography, “Rental Family” immediately announces its intentions to burrow deep into our hearts. Co-writer/director Hikari’s...
You will not find a more emotionally intelligent film this year than “Sentimental Value.” Writer/director Joachim Trier's follow-up to his decade-defining film “The Worst Person in the World” produces...
As the screenwriter for the all-around masterpiece that is “Zodiac,” James Vanderbilt essentially gets a lifetime free pass.
Unfortunately, he milked that freedom for all it’s worth with some...
Oh, when will they ever learn? It’s a question that director Yorgos Lanthimos continually asks of his characters, and, by extension, the human species as a whole.
Lanthimos’s distinctly macabre...