Todd Haynes, the director that brought us “Carol,” “Far from Heaven” and “Velvet Goldmine,” opts for a good old-fashioned corporate thriller with “Dark Waters” based on the 2016 New York Times article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” by Nathaniel Rich.
There’s something special about father-daughter movies. First, there aren’t enough of them, and second, there are some really good ones, from “Paper Moon” and “On Golden Pond” to recent films “Hearts Beat Loud” and “Leave No Trace.”
Shia LaBeouf and Zack Gottsagen are a modern-day Tom and Huck in the Mark Twain inspired “The Peanut Butter Falcon” from writer-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz. Brimming with adventure and spirit, the film’s renowned cast is overshadowed by newcomer Gottsagen, an actor with Down …
The names have been changed but “Honey Boy” is based on Shia LaBeouf’s childhood as a young actor and what we see on screen is far from glamorous.
It’s time to start the seasonal jingle of Christmas bells.
For moviegoers who shy away from documentaries, filmmaker Dan Krauss remains resolute to get the story out of 21-year-old Adam Winfield, a U.S. soldier who witnessed atrocities committed by his platoon against Afghanistan civilians, that he’s turned his 2014 documentary “The Kill Team” into …
Cynthia Erivo’s spirited performance as the heroic Harriet Tubman who escaped slavery to become a freedom fighter for the Underground Railroad (and who should be on the $20 bill right now) is the highlight of the first biopic about the American abolitionist, suffragist, political activist an…
The con is on in this masterful tale from South Korean director Bong Joon-ho who made a big splash with 2007’s “The Host.”
Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s 1983 beloved book “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World,” writer-director Robin McKenna slams the brakes on this fast-paced world which revolves around commerce by using the spirit of Hyde’s novel to bring us four character-driven stories centered …
Eddie Murphy is his name and making audiences laugh is his game! He was great in 2006’s “Dreamgirls” and over the years the Oscar-nominated actor-comedian found success with “The Nutty Professor” and in animated form (“Shrek,” “Mulan”) but “Dolemite Is My Name” features the best performance …
Hannah Pearl Utt makes her directorial debut with the funny “Before You Know It” in which she plays a restrained stage manager named Rachel who operates a small New York City theater just below the apartment she lives in with eccentric sister Jackie (Jen Tullock) and her coming of age daught…
“Pain and Glory” is the 21st full-length feature by Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar. It is third part of a trilogy that began with 1987’s “Law of Desire” followed by 2004’s “Bad Education.” In each film, the central character is a filmmaker who is toying with the idea of a new project as desi…
Unpredictable and prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike returns with a story of two outlaws on the run from the Yakuza, Chinese gangster, and corrupt police officials in an entertaining amalgamate of violence, comedy and action.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month and the perfect time to unveil Bill Haney’s new documentary about Texas immunologist and Nobel laureate James P. Allison, the executive director of Immunotherapy Platform at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Oscar-winner Renée Zellweger is breathtaking as iconic Hollywood movie star Judy Garland in Rupert Goold’s biopic “Judy,” based on Peter Quilter’s play “End of the Rainbow.”
A young couple (Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe) on the lam after robbing a gas station get more than they bargained for after their car runs out of gas and they find themselves hiding out in the home of eccentric husband and wife George (Jeffrey Donovan) and Gloria (Kyra Sedgwick) who are h…
The University of Houston-Victoria has partnered with the Victoria Film Society to bring the movie “Cesar Chavez” to downtown Victoria as part of Hispanic Heritage Month
Beneath a blanket of snow in an isolated section of the Catskill Mountains, secrets refuse to remain buried in the supernatural horror thriller “The Deeper You Dig” from filmmaking family Toby Poser, John Adams and Zelda Adams.
Based on the 2015 article by Jessica Pressler (played here by Julia Stiles) which appeared in New York magazine, “Hustlers” recounts the brazen story of a group of strippers led by the assertive Ramona (Jennifer Lopez in her best performance since 1998’s “Out of Sight”), a veteran pole-danci…
200 years after 18-year old Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” comes the latest interpretation by independent horror virtuoso Larry Fessenden.
“Satanic Panic” sounds like something uttered by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, but you won’t find any sweet transvestites in the sophomore film from director Chelsea Stardust — just a bunch of feminist Satanists (catchy!) looking for a virgin to sacrifice.
The Losers Club is reunited to once again take on Pennywise the evil clown in Andy Muschietti’s conclusion to 2017’s “It,” which passed “The Exorcist” and “The Sixth Sense” to become the highest-grossing horror film of all time.
Even though Jillian Bell has been on the radar for five years with funny roles in “22 Jump Street,” “Office Christmas Party,” and recently, “Sword of Trust,” the former SNL writer delivers a breakthrough performance as a 20-something party girl who decides to clean up her life and train for …
Just when you think Mads Brugger’s documentary about the mysterious death of Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold unveils its smoking gun, the cold case takes the viewer down a more sinister path, exposing either one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century or a foolhar…
One of rock ’n’ roll’s most iconic figures, David Crosby, is the subject of the new Cameron Crowe produced documentary “Remember My Name.” His glory days may be behind him, but the singer-songwriter who made history with The Byrds; Crosby, Stills & Nash; and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Yo…
An accurate slice of adolescent life is portrayed in Hari Sama’s coming of age drama that takes place in the new wave post-modern scene of 1986 Mexico. Xabiani Ponce De León and José Antonio Toledano deliver first-rate performances as 17-year old best friends who discover sex, drugs, and lib…
If you only see one movie about a lobotomist this summer, make it Rick Alverson’s “The Mountain.”
The evil that men do in Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale” is far more frightening than any monster from her 2014 horror debut “The Babadook.”
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