The action thriller "Love Lies Bleeding" is an example of extremely well-made sleaze, a midnight movie with a mind. Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brien star in a twisted lesbian romance embellished with violent revenge and occasional magic realism. It's sordid and excessive but give a tip of the hat for...
Ava DuVernay's earnest and thoughtful drama "Origin" focuses on the multiple personal traumas that prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson endured as she wrote and researched her nonfiction bestseller, “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents.” Anjanue Ellis Taylor is excellent in the lead role and while the movie is sometimes frustratingly repetitious...
"Women Talking" is an award-winning film adapted from a 2018 novel by Miriam Toews. It’s loosely based on the true story of a group of Mennonite women who gather to discuss what to do when they become the victims of sexual attacks by the men of their colony. The solid...
Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins ("Silence of the Lambs") and Olivia Coleman ("The Favourite") star in "The Father," a drama about a profound struggle with dementia. It marks the directorial debut of French playwright, Florian Zeller.
Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman add significant gravitas to the heartbreaking drama, “The Father.” Hopkins plays an elderly gent tortured by dementia and Coleman is his long-suffering daughter who does her best to help him. Writer-director Florian Zeller uses some clever dramatic tricks to give us a sense...
