“Rosemead” is based on “A dying mother’s plan: Buy a gun. Rent a hotel room. Kill her son,” an article…
Browsing: Drama
From A. V. Bramble in 1920 to Robert Fuest in 1970, Emily Brontë’s classic novel “Wuthering Heights” has been adapted…
2004’s “Man on Fire” by Tony Scott features Denzel Washington mirroring roles we’ve seen before. “Flight” (for alcoholism) and “The…
An adaptation of Adam Mars-Jones’ novel “Box Hill,” “Pillion” centers around Colin (Harry Melling), a timid and by-the-book traffic warden…
Several years ago, someone whom I was then seeing asked me a seemingly simple question: In a relationship, would you…
We officially are in Dumpuary. For me, as a critic, it’s like summer break after awards-season finals weekend—a predictable lull…
There’s a version of “The Yellow Tie” that plays like a straightforward biopic: childhood hardship, artistic awakening, the long climb…
Rooted in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and similar to the Jamaican Patois slang bad gyal , the term ‘baddie’…
“Forrest Gump” was a movie I watched countless times as a kid. Released in the summer of 1994, it aired…
In the song “Rewind” by Better than Ezra, the band writes: “right there, a sone became a soundtrack for a place…