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.
Liam Neeson once again plays a man grudgingly forced into violence in the drama "In the Land of Saints and Sinners." During Ireland's political and social upheaval in the 1970s, a hit man tries to extract himself from the bloodshed but is reluctantly pulled back in. It's got its merits, including...
Oscar winner Regina King ("If Beale Street Could Talk") stars as congresswoman Shirley Chisholm in the Netflix biopic, "Shirley."
Kansas City native son Paul Rudd is joined by originals Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson for another comically spooky go-round, “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.” The old team up with the new to combat a malevolent spirit bent on polarizing New York City. Admittedly, we've pretty much seen it all before,...
Jeffrey Wright ("Westworld") plays an African American writer forced to compromise in the observant comedy, "American Fiction."
The big winner at the Cannes Film Festival is an involving French courtroom drama that also received an Oscar for it's screenplay.
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...
