Brazen and desperate schemes take shape this week in “Best Laid Plans,” episode 9 of Kansas City Actors Radio Theatre's original series, “Kansas City: 1924,” by Forrest Attaway. As dust settles on the latest battle for the streets of Kansas City, the combatants nurse their wounds and look for a...
“The Dig,” a warm and moving tale inspired by true events. Carrie Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes star in Simon Stone’s adaptation of John Preston’s novel about one of the most important archeological discoveries in British history. In 1939, group of enthusiastic amateurs unearth an Anglo-Saxon treasure on a remote rural...
"The White Tiger" is a Netflix adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Arivind Adiga. It's a Dickensian tale about a poor Indian lad who uses his wits to rise above his lower caste station.
The well-made and disturbing Netflix drama “The White Tiger” is based on the award-winning picaresque novel by Aravind Adiga. Set in modern India, the sprawling story is a scathing indictment of business and political corruption as well as the inequities of the Indian caste system. The story is seen through...
Director David Fincher ("The Social Network") focuses on Old Hollywood with his new feature "Mank." Gary Oldman plays acclaimed screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz in this 'warts-and-all" biopic, now showing on Netflix.
On the night that Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing crown in 1964, he met up with NFL running back Jim Brown, pop music superstar Sam Cooke and civil rights activist Malcom X. The film “One Night in Miami” is a fictionalized account of that event. Kingsley...
Vanessa Kirby ("The Crown"), Shia LaBeouf ("Honeyboy") and Ellen Burstyn ("Requiem for a Dream") star in the harrowing drama, "Pieces of a Woman."
Are you a fan of the sweeping melodramatic Hollywood romances of the 1950s that often show up on Turner Classic Movies? If so, then "Silvie's Love" is right up your alley. Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha star in the story of a rocky romance between a wannabe TV producer and a...
