Those familiar with Diana Wynne Jones' children's book Earwig and the Witch will be surprised to find Gorô Miyazaki's cinematic adaptation beginning with a cha...
Joe Deacon (Denzel Washington) never wanted to return to Los Angeles. It didn't matter that he had a good life there before his divorce and estrangement from h...
While playing a game of "mafia," Babak (Shahab Hosseini) and Neda (Niousha Noor) are tasked with figuring out who amongst them (it's an evening with friends ro...
When Simon Stone's The Dig begins with Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) towing his bicycle across the water in a boat towards Sutton Hoo, it's natural to align our ...
It opens with a gladiator-level war of attrition between two middle school-aged siblings in their backyard. The game is called "crazy ball" and the loser gets ...
There's a fundamental problem at the center of Conor Allyn's No Man's Land: the tragic event sparking its introspective yet superficially transformative journe...
You know that young Balram Halwai's (Adarsh Gourav) ascent from servant to entrepreneur within Ramin Bahrani's The White Tiger won't be quite what we're used t...
While it’s annoying to hear people declare that there were “no great films this year” under any circumstances, it’s even more outrageous in 2020 when put into ...
It's funny to think that streaming services like Netflix didn't bother creating posters for their original work a few years back knowing they'd never have to c...
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a known commodity in the world of international news so it was no surprise when word of his disappearance, presumed death,...
