Hollywood is obsessed with continuously trying to duplicate the magic of previous releases. When a movie is a hit, every producer in town gets on the phone and yells, “Get me one just like it!” To be fair, part of the...
Richard Reich Makes the Case for the Besieged Middle Class in this Articulate Documentary Former Secretary of Labor and unabashed liberal Robert Reich speaks to the decline of the American middle class in Inequality for...
Though it unfolds in the present, writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s beautiful new film underscores how difficult it can be to elude the past. His first to be shot outside his native Iran, the film opens at the Paris...
A Boy’s Dark World Illuminated The title of director George Tillman Jr.’s latest effort, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, is not to be taken literally, though you might think so, since it refers to the struggle...
You’re probably thinking, Sandra Bullock – lost in space… How interesting can that be? Surprisingly – very! Gravity is gripping, tense thriller with an emotional through-line that is never overplayed. Despite its early...