The Best Elmore Leonard Movie Adaptations
Legendary writer Elmore “Dutch” Leonard died this morning, surrounded by friends and family. He was 87 years old, and was one of America’s most distinctive and influential genre novelists, penning over...
View Article15 Troubled Male Musical Genius Biopics, Ranked
When Sony Pictures Classics decided back in October to move the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light out of the crowded Oscar-hopeful season and into a relatively quiet March berth, they probably...
View ArticleYes, ‘Logan’ Is a “Grown-Up” Superhero Movie. Is That Enough?
Ya gotta give ‘em this: the people who made Logan aren’t trying to pull any fast ones. They make it abundantly clear, from the very first scene, that this new X-Men/ Wolverine spin-off won’t be like...
View ArticleThis Week at the Movies: ‘Logan,’‘Table 19,’ the David Byrne Color Guard Doc
This week’s big, big release is Logan, in which director James Mangold and stars Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart reimagine X-Men’s Wolverine as a foul-mouthed, blood-shedding hard case. It’s pretty...
View ArticleThe 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Get Out,’ ‘Logan,’ ‘The Great...
The waves and crashes of home viewing can make for a rocky ride – last week, for example, we were stretching to get to our usual five must-sees, while this week we had to restrain ourselves to just...
View ArticleSecond Glance: The Scorsese-esque Melancholy of ‘Cop Land’
Welcome to “Second Glance,” a bi-weekly column that spotlights an older film of note (thanks to an anniversary, a connection to a new release, or new disc or streaming availability) that was not as...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Voyeur,’ ‘Silence’
It’s a low-key week on the disc front, with only one new Blu-ray to recommend (unless you’re a glutton for animated comedies in which the punchline to every non-joke is “The ‘80s!”, in which case we...
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