The tennis movie "Challengers" takes the term 'love' in a kinky direction. Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist star in a raunchy comic drama about a ménage à troi involving championship level competitors. The actors are fine and look convincing on the court. The timeline of director Luca Guadagnino's story...
Director Ava DuVernay's drama "Origin" is a drama about the personal challenges that journalist Isabel Wilkerson endured as she researched her non-fiction book "Caste: The Origins of our Discontents." Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor ("King Richard") portrays the author.
Director Guy Ritchie's paints with very broad strokes for his wacky action comedy "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson lead the cast as criminal mercenaries recruited by Winston Churchill to secretly disable Nazi ships in Africa that supplied their deadly U-boats. The action is too exaggerated to...
Does Alex Garland's controversial drama "Civil War" live up to the hype? Kirsten Dunst stars in a speculative thriller showing what a split in our Union might look like.
Contemporary political divisions and paranoia add an uneasy edge to filmmaker Alex Garland's chilling speculative nightmare, "Civil War." Kirsten Dunst is solid as a famed photojournalist who races with colleagues to get to Washington, DC before rebel forces attack the White House. And KC native Stephen McKinley Henderson scores as an...
The lead-up to Prince Andrew's notorious 2019 BBC Newsnight interview is the subject of the Netflix drama, "Scoop." Billie Piper, Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell lead the cast.
Bollywood meets “John Wick” in the over-the-top, ultraviolent thriller, “Monkey Man.” Actor Dev Patel wrote, directed and stars in the tale of an impoverished Indian man who extracts bloody vengeance on the people who killed his mother and destroyed his boyhood home. Patel shows some impressive chops in his flashy...
Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin receives the biopic treatment in the Netflix drama, "Rustin." Coleman Domingo received an Oscar nomination for his performance.
