The Hill The Hill is a motivational sports drama. It tells the story of Rickey Marshall, a young man growing up in poverty who also has a disability and is the son of a preacher. Eventually, he becomes a professional baseball player. However, this movie feels longer than it should be due to its characterizations […]
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah A character in the movie says, “I love them and hate them at the same time.” This is in reference to the mean girls who rule the social hierarchy of her middle school. But it could apply to everything about this stage of life from parents
Boston Strangler In Matt Ruskin’s “Boston Strangler,” Keira Knightley is a force of will, and a persuasive one at that. She plays Loretta McLaughlin, a wife and mother who starts in the Lifestyle section at the Record American newspaper in Boston. With Jean Cole (Carrie Coon), her reporting partner, she stumbles upon a connection between
The Burial It’s simple to forget that often the surest and sometimes best pleasure comes from simple comfort food when you see hundreds of movies a year. “The Burial,” directed by Maggie Betts, is a throwback ’90s inspirational courtroom drama pitched to extreme comedy. Flashy personal injury lawyer Willie E. Gary (Jamie Foxx) arrives in
The Surfer I am back after 15 days in Cannes still jetlagged, still reeling from the countless films I saw and everything between my apartment and the Palais, everyone from the shopkeepers to restauranteurs to colleagues and more, feels so familiar that it’s like coming home. The only thing that doesn’t feel normal is being
What You Wish For The spoiler issue is still a big problem in film conversation. It’s hitting me hard right now. “What You Wish For,” written and directed by Nicholas Tomnay and starring Nick Stahl, is a movie that I went into relatively cold, which greatly enhanced my enjoyment of the thriller turned horror (is
Reverse the Curse “Reverse the Curse” used to be called “Bucky F*cking Dent,” premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival last year. Even this title would have given the film some much needed personality and it’s also the name of Duchovny’s book, on which this movie is based. It’s a baseball story and a father son
Haunted Mansion Disney’s Haunted Mansion is now a part of the company’s spooky canon with three film adaptations. It follows the 2003 Eddie Murphy-starring nostalgic ride, and this year’s Muppets edition. Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair”) directs the Black led live action iteration of the story. Simple plot leads to simple execution all
I Am: Celine Dion Within minutes of commencing I Am: Céline Dion, the pop star’s incredibly frank documentary about her battle with an unusual neurological condition, she is on the floor curled up in a foetal position, surrounded by staff. Someone has called 911. When asked if she is in pain, all she can do
Infested Why did it have to be spiders? Any of us who are scared of them can tell you that spiders with their many legs are terrifying. Most of us do not like finding them on our windowsills, crawling across our walls or making homes for themselves out of cobwebs in forgotten nooks and crannies.
