One of the top films of 2010 was David Fincher’s biographical drama “The Social Network,” which told the story of young Mark Zuckerberg and his founding of the worldwide phenomenon...

In his riskiest role since Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 indie classic “Magnolia,” the top A-list actor of the past three decades, Tom Cruise, plays an oil magnate named Digger, the...

In rural, Depression-era Oregon, Samuel Murphy – another fantastic performance by Ethan Hawke -- is a jack-of-all-trades worker and single father to a precocious young daughter named Penny. Penny loves...

In Kent Jones new film “Late Fame,” Willem Dafoe plays Ed Saxberger, a seemingly “regular guy” type who works for the Post Office by day, and shoots pool with his...

In Joe Swanberg’s new film “The Sun Never Sets,” Wendy and Jack have been happily dating for the past two years. Wendy is a wonderful stepmom to Jack’s two elementary-aged...

In the outer reaches of Oklahoma, Amziah King is a well-known local beekeeper, part-time musician, and one of the most popular guys in town. Born and raised in the area,...

Coming just two years after his Oscar-winning “Oppenheimer,” director Christopher Nolan has seemingly bitten off more than he can chew with a grand-scale IMAX interpretation of Homer’s classic Greek epic...

Much of Steven Spielberg’s work – that is, the non-historical dramas – can be divided into two categories. He specializes in sentimentality (think “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” or “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”),...

The June 6, 1944, Allied invasion of Normandy, France was the largest invasion in world history. It changed the course of WWII, and the course of history. Hollywood has chronicled...

Save for 2024’s Bob Dylan film “A Complete Unknown,” most recent biopics have fallen into the trap of what I call “Checklist Biographies” – in which the filmmakers simply check...