Tucked around a quiet corner of a small courtyard at the intersection of three buildings at Loyola Marymount University, a large banner with the image of an altar boy’s black-and-white …
Read moreScience-fiction cyborgs, or “cybernetic organisms” have been around in print and film for a long time. My personal favorite is the Terminator in futuristic filmmaker James Cameron’s 1991 film “Terminator …
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Leave No Trace — This very gentle film was co-written with Anne Rosellini and directed by Debra Granik who gave us “Winter’s Bone.” “Leave No Trace” is almost perfect. It draws …
Read moreJust when the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decides that it’s not interesting enough for television audiences to see the Oscars for cinematography and editing comes one of …
Read moreBy 1971, Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) and C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell) had been on opposite sides for a decade. Ann was an indefatigable African American civil rights activist, advocate …
Read more“Unplanned” is a new film from Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon, both known for the Evangelical paranoia, audience-bait trilogy “God’s Not Dead.” They have teamed up again for a true-life …
Read moreThe documentary “Leaving Neverland” — produced and directed by Dan Reed — is a slowly spun, gently told tragedy that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
While the filmmaker …
By 1971, Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) and C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell) had been on opposite sides for a decade. Ann was an indefatigable African American civil rights activist, advocate …
Read moreOn Feb. 8, 2010, Philadelphia police, the FBI and the DEA descended on the Women’s Medical Society in West Philadelphia with search warrants due to suspected illegal drug prescriptions issued …
Read moreIn 2008, there was an ominous early-morning knock on the door of the Shank family home in Lansing, Michigan. Cindy, mother of Autumn (6), Ava (2) and Annalis (under a …
Read more“Been there, done that” hasn’t killed the annual New Year’s resolution ritual, despite a failure rate of close to 90 percent. In fact, more people are making them today than …
Read moreJared Eamons (Lucas Hedges) is 18 and the only son of car dealer and Baptist preacher Marshall (Russell Crowe) and his wife Nancy (Nicole Kidman.) They live in Arkansas and …
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