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PLOT: A former baseball player-turned-garbage man (Denzel Washington) tries to reconcile his lost dreams of glory while raising a family in 1950’s Pittsburgh. REVIEW: For those of you not in the know, FENCES is based on the 1987 Tony Award-winning...
PLOT: A young boy dealing with his terminally ill mother discovers solace in a mysterious creature who comes calling outside his window. While doing so, he realizes that he must confront the darkest and harshest truths of facing loss and...
PLOT: The true story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), a mathematician who, along with her African American colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) overcame segregation to become invaluable members of the NASA brain trust in...
PLOT: Three different women explore life and love in Southern California during the late Seventies. REVIEW: There was promise here. 20TH CENTURY WOMEN offers up a solid cast with an exciting new filmmaker and an intriguing subject. In fact, there...
PLOT: Small-town father-and-son coroners (Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch) perform an emergency, late-night autopsy on the corpse of a young woman whose biology makes no sense. REVIEW: Of all the films I’ve seen at TIFF this year (nearly twenty as...
PLOT: A death row inmate (Michael Fassbender) is given a reprieve by a mysterious corporation that wants to tap into memories from his past life as a 15th Century Spanish assassin, all in the hopes of finding the “apple of...
PLOT: In order to help cope with his mother's terminal illness, a lonely young boy is visited every night by a therapeutic tree-monster with life lessons to impart. REVIEW: A third time is most certainly a charm for talented Spanish...
Note: I'm going to discuss the main plot twist of Morten Tyldum's PASSENGERS, even though it may be considered a spoiler. I can't tell how much people actually know what this movie is about; the ad campaign has been pretty...
PLOT: The new Sherriff (Patrick Wilson) of a small town near the U.S/ Mexican border gets mixed up with a cartel plot to smuggle bullets over the border. Ill-equipped to deal with the sociopathic cartels, he’s forced to rely on...
PLOT: A creative exec (Will Smith) is unmoored by the death of his young daughter. Two years later, on the eve of an important merger, he’s yet to recover, leading his partners (Edward Norton, Kate Winslet & Michael Pena) to...
David Robert Mitchell has made one of the best Amblin-esque films in years, with the film having much in common with classics like Poltergeist and Arachnophobia.
