Movies

Jharrel Jerome (Anthony Robles) in ‘Unstoppable’. Photo Credit: Ana Carballosa/Prime Video. ‘Unstoppable’ receives 5.5 out of 10 stars. Opening in theaters on December 6th before arriving on Prime Video January 16th, ‘Unstoppable’ is just the latest challenger to enter the ring of sports biopics that take inspirational stories of overcoming big challenges with a charismatic
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While many films have conjured terrifying physical manifestations of grief, one that set a notably high bar for hand-crafted horror exploring that fecund strand was Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook. The specter of that brutally effective 2014 shocker proves inescapable for writer-director Dylan Southern in The Thing With Feathers, right down to a malevolent figure haunting
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(Left) David Leitch in Paris for ‘Bullet Train.’ Credit: Oliver Vigerie/Sony Pictures. (Right) George Clooney and Brad Pit in ‘Ocean’s Eleven’. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures. Preview: David Leitch is in talks to direct ‘Ocean’s Fourteen.’ George Clooney, Brad Pitt and other leads would likely return. Warner Bros. is backing the movie as always. Las Vegas
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Callina Liang as Chloe in ‘Presence’. Photo: Neon. ‘Presence’ receives 6 out of 10 stars. Opening in theaters on January 24th, ‘Presence’ is the latest film from Steven Soderbergh, who seemingly never stops wanting to play with format and style, and usually to interesting effect. While his new supernatural drama certainly has some elements to
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Writer-director Alireza Khatami is known for a pair of semi-experimental dramas — 2017’s Oblivion Verses and 2023’s Terrestrial Verses (co-directed with Ali Asgari) — where he constantly toys with storytelling techniques, inserting flashes of surreal imagery without warning, or relying on a mysteriously oblique viewpoint to narrate the action. If the content of his films
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Director Robert Eggers on the set of his film ‘Nosferatu’, a Focus Features release.Credit: Aidan Monaghan / © 2024 Focus Features LLC. Preview: Filmmaker Robert Eggers has announced his next film. He’ll write and direct werewolf tale ‘Werwulf.’ It should be in theaters on Christmas Day, 2026. While it may not have quite the same
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Jon Bernthal at the ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ premiere. Photo: Alex J. Berliner/ABImages. Preview: Jon Bernthal is the latest recruit for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’ Lupita Nyong’o, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Zendaya are among the cast. Nolan will kick off shooting soon. If you thought ‘Oppenheimer’ writer/director Christopher Nolan was finished adding
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The 97th Oscars will air live on March 2nd on ABC and Hulu. Preview: ‘Anora,’ ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ are in contention for Oscars. ‘Wicked’ made the cut for Best Picture and other categories, though Jon M. Chu missed out on a directing nod. The ceremony happens on March 2nd. The 97th Academy Awards
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First, manage your expectations: This bio-documentary doesn’t reveal much that its subject, the actor Marlee Matlin, hasn’t already discussed — particularly in her own 2009 memoir I’ll Scream Later, in which she frankly addressed her struggles with addiction, sexual abuse experienced in childhood, and alleged violence at the hands of early boyfriend, the actor William
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(L to R) Jack Quaid as Josh and Sophie Thatcher as Iris in New Line Cinema’s ‘Companion,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. ‘Companion’ receives 8 out of 10 stars. Opening in theaters on January 31st is ‘Companion,’ directed by
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Sphere Media, a Canadian TV and film producer, has secured the rights to Dancing With Diana: A Memoir by Scottish/Canadian dancer Anne Allan, who was Princess Diana‘s top secret dance teacher and co-choreographed a legendary Uptown Girl routine at Covent Garden for her. Glasgow-based Two Rivers Media and Sphere have struck their first co-production deal to make a 90-minute feature documentary based
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