Meryl Streep did not miss her calling as a rock star, but the chemistry with her daughter Mamie Gummer makes this flick a winner. Now for something completely different. Oscar winning director Jonathan Demme (“The Silence of the Lambs”) teams up with Oscar winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (“Juno”) in a film featuring Oscar winning super
Any horror fan knows that a good scary movie can leave you chilled to the bone. But a better one can leave you wanting more. Luckily, Netflix has a few of these films that you don’t have to say goodbye to so quickly. Here are seven different horror movies on Netflix with more than one
All the gadgetry and double the action fall short. But the pure charm of the movie saves the day. OK, you have to like Tom Cruise. That is the first requirement for seeing Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Also, it helps if you have at least a tiny bit of nostalgia for the original “Mission:
Television stops imitating life and becomes it in the first reality show of all time. On the surface, Robert Gordon’s and Morgan Neville’s documentary is about a series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. As it turns out, there is a lot more
A thoroughly entertaining movie that probes our most painful history and provides a scalpel of a plot. Director Christian Petzold re-unites with leads Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld in this multiple award winning mystery neo-noir. The Petzold and Hoss enjoyed multiple awards for their previous efforts in “Wolfsburg,” “Toter Mann,” “Yella” and “Barbara” and this
Visually stunning, Ex Machina is a slick sci-fi film that hooks the audience with a slow-burning plot that is fueled by powerful performances. Written and directed by Alex Garland, the film features Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Sonoya Mizuno and an incredible Oscar Isaac. Garland makes his directing debut with this film after serving as screenplay
An almost fatally derivative fight flick is saved by a key performance and some good old on-screen fight hokum. This boxing tale splashes the latest hi-tech boxing sequences in front of the audience in no holds barred graphic violence but the film is saved by one key performance. Twelve year old Oona Lawrence punches through
Some people are show business personalities, others are show business. There are perhaps one percent of today’s film viewing audience that ever heard of Sophie Tucker. That is too bad, because she came from a time when stars were born not out of technical special effects, computerized sound producing and outrageous tabloid headlines but out
A defense of the performing arts blossoms into a larger plea for democracy. Writer/director Chaitanya Tamhane’s debut feature film is more allegory than story. The characters in the movie almost hover above the meanings developed from scene to scene. On the surface it is a film about a performing artist who is arrested for causing
Extracts from the Disney attractions are dreadful but personality wins the day in this light duty superhero tale. Director Peyton Reed’s “Ant-Man” benefits from a skillful combination of action, scientific education and personality. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney (the twelfth of the Marvel series) it is a sci-fi action film that