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It’s hard to pin down movie biopics these days. For every decades-spanning examination like ROCKETMAN or THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, you get truly truncated takes like JACKIE (showcasing the weeks [...]

It’s that time of year again when critics pick their 10 Best Films of the Year and thus, here I am telling you mine. I’m even more happy to tell you that this year was exceptionally difficult as [...]

Many scoff at the idea of wrestling as a legitimate sport. (Vegas doesn’t take odds on any match so there’s the proof for any doubters.) The new film THE IRON CLAW, based upon the true story of a [...]

At first blush, Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel The Color Purple doesn’t seem like the kind of prose to lend itself easily to a Broadway musical. The story of Celie, a poor [...]

One of the oldest adages in literature is “Write what you know” and in his new film AMERICAN FICTION, first-time director Cord Jefferson turns that famous phrase on its head. The story of his [...]

Dirty Harry. John Rambo. Jack Bauer. Jason Bourne. John Wick. Jack Reacher. There’s something almost ridiculous about how the aforementioned action heroes act in their big or small screen [...]

The powers that be have been determined to make more out of Willy Wonka for decades. After the success of 1971’s WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, Nestlé Company rendered him as a cartoon [...]

I thought Jennifer Lawrence’s full-frontal fight on the beach in NO HARD FEELINGS was outrageous. Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa in WONKA (opening December 15th) is pretty audacious too. But none [...]