This is the true story of the three young American men who thwarted an attempted terrorist attack on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris in August of 2015. While director Clint Eastwood has brought us some outstanding films over the years – Million Dollar Baby, Letters From Iwo Jima, Mystic River – this is […]
This gleeful musical, filled with greatest hits from the ABBA songbook, is the story of young Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), who, days before her wedding on a tiny Greek isle, and unbeknownst to her mother (Meryl Streep), invites the three men who may be her father to the wedding. The immensely popular songs are great fun, […]
The whole gang from 2008’s Mamma Mia! is back in this ABBA song-infused musical about a free-spirited woman seeking love on a tiny Greek Island. In this sequel, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is re-opening her newly-renovated hotel as a tribute to her mother Donna (Meryl Streep), whom has died the year before. As her mom’s best friends […]
When a young couple’s car breaks down while traveling through a heavily-wooded, mine-infested forest in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the female half of the couple, a Muslim survivor of the Bosnian War, uses an amulet given to her by her late father to summon a mysterious entity for protection after she is captured by two Serbian kidnappers. Alma […]
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, Bruno, Da Ali G Show) turns his satirical eye towards American politics and blind nationalism in this new half hour comedy series on Showtime. In it, Cohen unveils four new alter egos: a right-wing conspiracy theorist/blogger, a left-wing activist who apologizes for being a white man, an ex-convict pedaling art made […]
This terrific, character-driven drama is the story of 15-year-old Charley, who, at the end of his rope, and apparently having no one to care for him, attaches himself to an aging racehorse in the twilight of its career, in an Iliad-type journey in search of a better life. Charlie Plummer (All The Money In the […]
Claire Foy (The Crown) trades in her tiara for a padded cell in director Steven Soderbergh’s mystery/thriller about Sawyer, a woman who unwittingly checks herself into a psychiatric facility for 24 hours observation after telling a therapist she’s at times considered suicide due to a stalker that has ruined her life for the past two […]
This eight episode HBO mystery series, adapted from Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn’s debut novel and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Big Little Lies), stars Amy Adams as Camille, a hard drinking reporter confronting psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown in rural Missouri to cover the violent murder of one young girl […]
This sequel to 2015’s Marvel Studios hit Ant-Man has our unlikely size-shifting superhero reuniting with his old pals to search for Doctor Pym’s wife Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) in the “quantum realm,” whatever implausible subatomic world that is. The sequel is brimming with all the charm of the original, plus an even more clever (and yes, […]
An introverted high school English teacher coping with the death of her mother unexpectedly finds herself connecting emotionally with three high school students while chaperoning them at a state drama competition. This clever, indy drama/comedy marks an impressive directorial debut from screenwriter Julia Hart, who deftly portrays the tricky balance between friendship and teacher/student relationships […]