Baz Luhrmann couldn’t help but make his take on the king of rock and roll, simply titled Elvis, as outlandish, style-obsessed, and paranoia-stricken as possible, perhaps to outrun the easy comparisons to Walk Hard through sheer speed of gyration. That’s…
Greyhound Movie Review: Tom Hanks Is Stiff in Tepid Naval Drama
Hollywood is running out of ways to do war movies. Studios have approached telling war stories in every conceivable way: epic, subdued, masculine, romantic, accusatory, reflective, victorious and mournful. One moment there’s The Bridge on the River Kwai and the…
TIFF 2019 Movie Review: Tom Hanks makes A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood a Place We’d All Like to Call Home
The fact that the biographical drama A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood exists shows just how hungry we are for what the man at its center represented. Fred Rogers, or Mr. Rogers, as the public knew him, radiated kindness and…
The Film Canon: Sleepless in Seattle 25th Anniversary
I was quite surprised to find out that Sleepless in Seattle was celebrating its 25th year of release, a perfect match as my 25th year comes closer into view. A film that I’ve seen just as many times over the…
Movie Review: The Post
Steven Spielberg’s latest offering The Post is certainly a Very Relevant Movie, and it takes a few too many pains to inform audiences just how relevant. It’s easy to see why, as many of its themes, such as, say, a…
The Post Trailer: Watch Meryl Streep & Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg’s new film
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first trailer for The Post. The dramatic thriller telling the story of the Pentagon Papers, starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, is directed by Steven Spielberg and will open in select theaters on December…
Movie Review: The Circle
What is the “circle” exactly? In the case of John Ponsoldt’s latest, it’s a cheap attempt to latch onto the “hip” zeitgeist while hitching a ride to millennial’s attachment to social media. It’s a tech heavy plot that doesn’t ever…