FBI agent Tom Hanks chases check forger Leonardo DiCaprio in Spielberg’s lively take on the true story of a con man who successfully posed as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor, and passed millions in forged checks, all before his 21st birthday.
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Francis McDormand in ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’ on Amazon Prime
The bouncy little screwball romance Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) is a fizzy cocktail of a movie set in depression-era London, where the beautiful people dance away in fabulous fashions and decadent distraction. Frances McDormand is the dowdy Guinevere Pettigrew, a buttoned-down yet free-thinking governess whose unorthodox ways have landed her on the […]
‘Arrival’ – First contact on Hulu and Paramount+
Arrival (2016) is the most cerebral of first contact films, a science fiction drama about communicating across cultures and across species and even across time without a common language, while failing to communicate within our own world. It is a film that looks out beyond our galaxy and inward to our own souls, to challenge […]
‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ on HBO Max
The smartest thing about Zach Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) is its revisionist take on the destruction that concluded his Superman reboot Man of Steel. After an unnecessary (but at least relatively brief) recap of the Batman story, we are plunged back into the battle but this perspective comes from the ground. […]