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We all deal with loss and pain in different ways. For Edee Holzer (Robin Wright) it means a break from society. She leaves Chicago for a solitary life in the wilderness after purchasing an old log cabin on a Wyoming mountaintop. With no survival skills, cellphone, or vehicle, it doesn’t take…

May I suggest an alternate title for the new Nicolas Cage film? “Willy Wonka’s Fury Road Kills Bill in Little China While Escaping from New York.” Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono makes his English language debut after 50-plus films with “Prisoners of the Ghostland” featuring Cage as our antiher…

The Top 10 Films of 2020

I’m not sure if an apocalyptic thriller is something we need to close out 2020. It’s definitely not the feel-good movie of the year. There is however an omnipresent sense of hope that mankind will survive in “The Midnight Sky,” which features a group of astronauts returning to Earth after sp…

Of the different fables that exist surrounding the name of Knockemstiff, Ohio — the setting for Antonio Campos’ (“Christine”) new film — two of them involve a preacher and one involves a brawl. They all seem appropriate as Tom Holland unleashes his fury on a few nefarious souls as the Avenge…

Based on Jake Tapper’s 2012 best-selling book, “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor,” comes the true story of the Battle of Kamdesh, which took place Oct. 3, 2009 as U.S. forces engaged the Taliban in one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Afghan War.

In 1973, Hungarian director Peter Medak ran into an old friend, actor Peter Sellers, while strolling down King’s Road in London’s West End. Sellers, already had two Pink Panther films under his belt as well as Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”

Ladies and gentlemen, the Captain has turned on the Fasten Seat Belt sign in preparation of 92 minutes of nerve-racking tension. Joseph Gordon-Levitt delivers an intense performance as an American co-pilot on the red-eye from Berlin to Paris when terrorists attempt to hijack the plane. The s…

“The King of Staten Island” is the latest comedy from Judd Apatow (“Trainwreck,” “Funny People,” “Knocked Up”) which was set to debut at SXSW this year.

Welcome to the feel-good movie of the summer. Tracee Ellis Ross (“black-ish”) plays superstar pop singer Grace Davis who’s at the stage in her career that finds most aging artists doing a Vegas residency to cash in on the success of their past hits.

Following a first-rate performance in “The Invisible Man,” which opened just before theaters shuttered, Elisabeth Moss returns as American horror-mystery writer Shirley Jackson in Josephine Decker’s follow up to 2018’s Sundance smash “Madeline’s Madeline.”

Zoinks! The origins of the Mystery Inc. gang are revealed in the new computer animated Scooby-Doo feature that kids will enjoy more than parents.

For those who love Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” and Chris Carter’s “The X-Files” comes this 1950s sci-fi thriller guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Each year, hundreds of filmmakers look forward to showcasing their latest work at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin. The five-day conference, which began in 1994 as an offshoot of the SXSW music festival, draws people from all the world and for many filmmakers, it’s a vit…

Twenty-one-year-old musician Sidney Flanigan resembles a young Jodie Foster in her acting debut as Autumn, a pregnant teenager who takes a bus from rural Pennsylvania to New York to get an abortion.

Pete Davidson’s character Zeke in Jason Orley’s “Big Time Adolescence” is this generation’s Wooderson, that beloved stoner played by Matthew McConaughey in Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused.” Now imagine if Linklater gave us a closer look at his character’s life. The laughs would fade,…

Director Alex Thompson and writer-actor Kelly O’Sullivan tackle subjects that have been stigmatized in the past, including queer marriage, abortion and postpartum depression, with the new drama “Saint Frances” about a 34-year-old waitress named Bridget (played by O’Sullivan), whose life take…

Movie theaters across the nation are closing this week, including Cinemark in Victoria, as a safety precaution to battle COVID-19. All cinemas in more than 32 international markets already have closed and the box office here in the U.S. dropped significantly last weekend with Disney and Pixa…

Haley Bennett clenches the spotlight for a career-high performance as a submissive housewife suffering from pica, a psychological disorder where she feels compelled to swallow inanimate and sometimes dangerous objects. As the compulsion intensifies her Cinderella marriage begins to crumble a…

Eighty-seven years after Claude Raines played the invisible man during Universal Pictures’ three-decade reign of iconic monsters, writer-director Leigh Whannell reboots the character that seems humdrum when compared to counterparts, Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy.

Playwright Owen McCafferty wrote “Ordinary Love” after his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. The experience inspired the semi-autobiographical story as a couple played by Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville undertake a similar journey.

Silent but deadly. Kitty Green’s muted Telluride Film Festival debut seems aimed at Harvey Weinstein as Julia Garner plays Jane an assistant working for a Tribeca film production company run by a manipulative mogul who is heard but never seen.

When a movie begins with a quote from William Shakespeare and Beyoncé, it’s a sign that you’re about to watch a comedy. And when the director is Ant Timpson (the producer of “The Greasy Strangler,” “Turbo Kid” and “ABCs of Death”), you can bet it will be dark, bloody and gross.

“The main thing that I always tried to be was … a good girl.” – Taylor Swift

While most of us are familiar with the movie “Joker” which received the most Oscar nominations with 11, and many of the other Best Picture nominees including the Netflix originals “The Irishman” and “A Marriage Story,” the shorts category is one that seems to elude most movie lovers. Many of…