Fred Topel Tully is a love letter to everything mothers sacrifice. And not in the stereotypical movie way of the harried cliche. It’s not good or bad. It’s just the reality of prioritizing children, no judgments. Marlo (Charlize Theron) has her third child and her brother Craig (Mark Duplass) pays for a night nanny as his baby
If they are going to remake movies, I am totally down with changing the genders. A gender reversal automatically gives the premise a new dynamic so the same story can have different themes. Overboard reinvents a classic for 2018. Kate Sullivan (Anna Faris) is a single mom supporting three daughters by working two jobs and
Avengers: Infinity War broke records in its opening weekend and is sure to make more in its second than most movies make in their entire run. Yet, that could still be good for this week’s new movie, Bad Samaritan. Bad Samaritan was supposed to open earlier this year but moved to May 4. Why would
Bad Samaritan reminds me of the glory days of ‘90s thrillers, like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Single White Female. Think about it, those were the most messed up premises, but they got A-list actors to play them straight. A woman poses as a nanny to get revenge on the woman who reported
Thanos is the big villain in Avengers: Infinity War. He was first seen in the end credits tag of The Avengers. Since then he’s been most central to the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Zoe Saldana plays Gamora, one of the Guardians and one of Thanos’s adopted daughters. We already know from the Guardians movies
Grace Jones appeared in person after a Los Angeles screening of the documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami last weekend. In the film, the enigmatic singer opens up before the cameras of her friend, Sophie Fiennes, who spoke with Monsters and Critics last week. The documentary shows Jones performing on stage, recording in the studio
Avengers: Infinity War unites the casts of every Marvel movie so far (well, except for Ant-Man but it’s still impressive). Coming hot off the success of Black Panther, that film’s cast is already back saving the world with the Avengers. Chadwick Boseman, who plays King T’Challa, wants to make sure fans aren’t expecting Black Panther
Grace Jones has been an enigmatic performer for decades. Whether you know her from her music, or from her acting roles in Conan the Destroyer, A View to a Kill, Vamp or Boomerang, the mystery and unknown have been central to her mystique. Jones reveals herself in the documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami. Filmmaker
If you saw the trailer to Traffik, you don’t know the whole story. It looks like a fairly straightforward thriller about a couple menaced by criminals at their vacation home. There’s more to it than that. Traffik touches on human trafficking, but as a thriller that invades the lives of these sheltered couples. Paula Patton,
I Feel Pretty has an ambitious meta premise. I don’t think it quite figured out how to pull it off, but I like what it’s trying to do. It’s basically like an ‘80s high concept comedy where the fantastical premise doesn’t actually happen. Big is references in the movie, but it could be Vice Versa,