Before Peter Jackson brought The Lord of the Rings Trilogy to life, he built his career with hits that have become a bit underrated in the wake of that mythic undertaking. One such title is Heavenly Creatures - a true crime dramatization that chronicled murder at the hands of two teenage girls.
Typically, we don’t condone holiday erasure. As soon as summer starts to wind down, many people will start digging out their Christmas decorations and planning their annual explosion of winter holiday cheer even before Halloween has a chance to roll in like an eerie fall fog. But when it comes to
Lee tells the story of real-life American photographer Lee Miller, a former model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II. Academy Award winner Kate Winslet stars in the film, which follows Lee’s photojournalism career during the war. As a feature, Lee had
Set in 1840s England, Ammonite tells the story of acclaimed but overlooked paleontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winselt). Mary works alone, selling fossils to tourists to get by. A chance job offer changes her life when a visitor hires her to care for his wife Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan). The two women
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger feels like a movie that’s selling itself as something deeper than it ultimately is. There’s an expectation that we’re going to get this grand story about the Gallagher brothers reconciling, putting aside their differences, and coming back together for these
There will be many moments during Paul Greengrass's new film The Uprising that create chilling parallels to recent historical events. His exploration of the 1381 peasants revolt in Medieval England is rooted as much in historical fact as it is relevant to the present day. Some of this is clearly by
“By Any Means” treads familiar ground, but Mark Wahlberg shines as real life Hitman-turned-Fed informer Gregory Scarpa, and behind the tropes and cinematic conventions is the kernel of a true story that has relevance to this day. Mark Wahlberg is distracting (mostly in a good way) throughout
