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Is Jake Gyllenhaal the most underrated actor working today? He can do drama, comedy, thrillers, action, and even musical theater. He’s a heralded talent for sure, but I’m not sure there’s a [...]

Screen adaptations are a tricky thing. Popular books, plays, and musicals don’t always convert to the medium of film, and DEAR EVAN HANSEN was one that was going to be tricky, no matter what. The [...]

Usually, horror films are filled with many slow-witted characters. They’re that way to make them easier victims, clueless and unaware of their surroundings, thereby easier to pick off by a ghoul [...]

Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield give incredibly accomplished performances in the new biopic THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE. It’s no mean feat, considering that the characters they are playing – [...]

The mantle of masculinity has always been at the heart of Paul Schrader’s work and his unflinching examination of it has made him one of cinema’s most important filmmakers. He wrote TAXI DRIVER, [...]

The new movie musical EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE is ironically titled as too few of such stories concerning the LGBTQ community get talked about enough. Quite often, when such stories do [...]

There’s an adage in Hollywood that every film is about two things: the plot, and the real story. The plot of SEVEN concerns a serial killer offing victims according to the Seven Deadly Sins. The [...]