2004’s “Man on Fire” by Tony Scott features Denzel Washington mirroring roles we’ve seen before. “Flight” (for alcoholism) and “The…
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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…
“Black Phone” 2, again directed and co-written by Scott Derrickson, improves upon its predecessor in remarkable ways. It’s interesting that…
Pouring plenty of emotion into its relatively brief run-time, Zak Hilditch’s “We Bury the Dead” takes a hearty swing at pathos-laden ‘zombie…
“Toughness doesn’t have to be forceful. It can be gentle.” Siila Watt-Cloutier says this early in the film, and it…
In the 2015 film “Spotlight,” Editor Marty Baron, played by Liev Schreiber, instructs his journalists to show that child sexual…
“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…
The title “Children of a Lesser God” had me hooked by how interesting it sounds. But the romance genre, devoid…