Riveting 'Deepwater Horizon' captivates throughout
Saturday, 1 October 2016, 16:15
Last update: about 10 years ago
We all know how "Deepwater Horizon " ends. When the BP oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, 11 people died and millions of gallons of oil spewed into the waters and up against the Gulf...
Wee, weird heroes star in 'Miss Peregrine's Home'
Friday, 30 September 2016, 16:15
Last update: about 10 years ago
Fall has officially just started, but there's still one more superhero flick sneaking in just before all the summer heat vanishes completely. But if you want muscled torsos and capes, you'll be sadly...
Eastwood's 'Sully' stubbornly refuses to soar
Thursday, 29 September 2016, 16:14
Last update: about 10 years ago
In "Sully," Clint Eastwood's haunted and sterile docudrama of Capt. Chesley Sullenberger's 2009 landing of Flight 1549 on the Hudson, Eastwood has drained away all the superficial, rah-rah...
James Cameron talks 'Avatar' sequels, Cirque du Soleil show
Friday, 23 September 2016, 16:02
Last update: about 10 years ago
The first "Avatar" sequel is still years away from hitting movie theaters, but fans of the blue-hued Na'vi can get their fix at a touring Cirque du Soleil show that James Cameron helped create -...
'Morgan' a cool, if predictable, exploration of AI
Thursday, 22 September 2016, 16:01
Last update: about 10 years ago
Played by relative newcomer Anya Taylor-Joy, Morgan is enigmatic and otherworldly, at once childlike and wise. She's also an expensive, top-secret experiment, and she appears to be...
New film shows how The Beatles helped fight segregation
Wednesday, 21 September 2016, 16:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
Music aside, the true power of The Beatles wasn't the volume of their fans or the popularity of their hairstyles - it was the pull of their politics. The band's refusal to play to segregated...
The beauty and tragedy of 'The Light Between Oceans'
Tuesday, 20 September 2016, 15:58
Last update: about 10 years ago
There is no misfortune too shattering for Derek Cianfrance it seems. The writer and director of "Blue Valentine," ''The Place Beyond the Pines" and now, an adaptation of the M.L. Stedman novel "The...
In festival-hit 'Moonlight,' growing up black and gay
Monday, 19 September 2016, 15:57
Last update: about 10 years ago
The shimmering glow of Barry Jenkin's "Moonlight," a poetic coming-of-age tale told across three chapters about a young gay black kid growing up in a poor, drug-ridden neighborhood of Miami, has lit...
'Kubo and the Two Strings' strums stop-motion wonder
Sunday, 18 September 2016, 12:52
Last update: about 10 years ago
Kubo, a young boy with bangs draped over his patched eye, is no traditional warrior. He sits down, pulls out his shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese lute) and soon his strumming sends the paper...
JT LeRoy doc explores absorbing literary scandal
Saturday, 17 September 2016, 12:51
Last update: about 10 years ago
To the general public, the name JT LeRoy probably rings only the vaguest of bells, if any at all. It didn't for this particular critic. But that innocent ignorance is all the more reason to seek out...