Writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton’s films share a common tone -- humane, socially progressive, thoughtful and, well, a bit dull. They’re earnest to a fault....
When his editor at Esquire magazine asked journalist Tom Junod to do a 1998 profile of Fred Rogers, the writer had no idea the assignment would change his life ...
When village girl Rouhi (Taraneh Alidoosti) rides into Tehran on the back of her fiancé’s motorcycle, the end of her chador catches in the gears of the machine,...
Atlanta movie-and-TV mogul Tyler Perry has set aside his drag alter ego Madea and the affluent Southeastern buppies he likes to write about and now tackles some...
Scrawny and scruffy, with a cumulus of uncombed hair, Romain Duris could only rate as a romantic lead in a French film. Then again, his co-star, Vanessa Paradis...
Think about it this way. You’re watching a standard Hollywood rom-com. Joe meets Jane over a comically spilled cup of coffee. They date, they dance, they picnic...
With the “Austin Powers” movies, the joke was funny the first time around ... the second time, not so much. (And the third? Yikes.) That pattern also applies to...
You want bleak? I’ll give you bleak. Go to Landmark Midtown Art Cinema and buy tickets to the three-part heaping helping of serial murder, police corruption and...
It was called the house that Quentin Tarantino built and was named for its owners’ parents, Max and Miriam. Now, after decades of delivering some of the world’s...
