Page Revisions: (October 8, 2017) Original Release Date: October 13, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.” Poster Rating: C- / C- (3) SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) Sometimes, being too simple doesn’t work well. This design feels antiquated…
Born August 18, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri to Jonas Schrift, a designer of men’s clothing, and his wife Rose (née Winter), a singer, Shirley Schrift, would become the actress Shelley Winters. The family moved to Brooklyn, New York when Winters was 9. Her sister Blanche having married a Los Angeles theatre manager, Winters joined…
Page Revisions: (October 8, 2017) Original Release Date: December 1, 2017 Synopsis: From IMDb: “On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife.” Poster Rating: B- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: The colors of the poster seem to match the warm period colors of…
Before the solid, but unspectacular debut of Blade Runner 2049, I would have said all of this week’s films were likely second fiddles. Now, it’s possible that The Foreigner manages to supplant Blade Runner. It’s also possible that everything bombs or Blade Runner has a good hold-over, which would put the others below it. Our…
Elian (Amazon Prime) Early in Elian, a new Amazon documentary about the Cuban refugee who took America by storm in the late 1990s, we meet a now grown, handsome and well-spoken Elian Gonzalez — a sharp contrast to the cute, almost mute boy we remember so vividly. He looks directly at us and tells us…
New This Week The Book of Henry is one of the most unfairly maligned films of the year. Written by Gregg Hurwitz and directed by Colin Trevorrow, this character study of a three-person family comprised of a child genius, his impressionable younger brother and his fragile mother is an emotional tour-de-force even if the underlying…
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Blade Runner 2049 In 1982, following the success of his classic 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, director Ridley Scott became the first director to dip into the well of Philip K. Dick novels to adapt his short story Do Androids Dream…
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Rating Director Luc Besson Screenplay Luc Besson (Comic Books: Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mézières) Length 2h 17m Starring Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Herbie Hancock, Kris Wu, Sam Spruell, Alain Chabat, Rutger Hauer MPAA Rating PG-13 for sci-fi violence and action, suggestive material and…