The Dark Knight continues to get darker and darker. In his first appearance as "The Batman" Robert Pattinson takes the brooding caped crusader to a new level of bleakness. "The Batman" is an extremely well-made movie that plays more like a gangster film noir than a superhero flick. In addition to...
The Netflix offering "tick...tick...BOOM!" is an adaptation of the Broadway musical autobiography of composer Jonathan Larson ("Rent"). Andrew Garfield ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye") stars.
There have been at least eleven film adaptations of Edmond Rostand's classic romantic play "Cyrano de Bergerac" and at least eleven others that were inspired by the story. The latest cinematic version is different in a couple of major ways. "Cyrano," starring Peter Dinklage, is a full-blown musical and the lovestruck...
"The Worst Person in the World" is a comic drama from Norway that's been nominated for two Academy Awards, Best International Feature and Best Original Screenplay.
Someday, someone will make a really good movie adaptation of a video game. It has to happen, eventually, right? "Uncharted," based on the PlayStation title, is the latest attempt. It’s an adventure yarn in the mold of Indiana Jones that has a likable cast, spectacular production values and plenty of...
Does Steven Spielberg's remake of the classic musical "West Side Story" live up to the original? Susan and Russ have very different opinions.
If you're in the mood for an old-fashioned Turner Classic Movies-style whodunit, look no further than "Death on the Nile." Director/star Kenneth Branagh is back as Agatha Christie's erudite detective Hercule Poirot, whom we last saw in 2017’s “Murder on the Orient Express.” Now, we see Poirot working on a...
Local filmmaker Trevor Hawkins makes his feature film debut with the drama "Lotawana," shot at Lake Lotawana, Missouri.
