The Academy Awards will be handed out on Sunday, February 24. Are you caught up on the major nominees? Eight films made the cut in the category of best picture and a few of them are still in theaters, notably the offbeat royal drama The Favourite (2018, R), which came away with ten nominations, political […]
Can a comic book superhero movie tell a human story? Logan (2017) makes the case that the genre is not limited to spectacle (though this film does offer some accomplished—and violent—action scenes), end of the world stakes, or world-building chapters in a massive franchise. Set in the near future of 2029, which is a lot […]
The Sopranos debuted on HBO in January of 1999 and changed the television landscape forever. More than simply “The Godfather Sees a Shrink,” the brilliant made-for-cable drama gave “family crisis” a whole new meaning and television drama a new sophistication. Emmy winner James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano, a blue collar guy in an upper-middle class neighborhood, […]
Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One and Wes Anderson’s animated Isle of Dogs come to HBO cable and streaming services in December, along with the comedies Blockers and Life of the Party and giant creature spectacle Rampage. HBO Originals include the feature Icebox, about a boy trapped in the U.S. Immigration system, and the documentaries Momentum […]
The family comedy Paddington 2 and the high school coming-of-age/coming out romantic comedy Love, Simon come to HBO cable and streaming services in November. Also making respective HBO debuts are Tomb Raider with Alicia Vikander, the giant robot sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising, and an extended version of Fifty Shades Freed, the final film in the […]
Curiosity is a killer in The Midnight Meat Train (2008), adapted from the short story by Clive Barker (one of the first he wrote) and directed by Japanese style-bomber Ryuhei Kitamura in his American feature debut. Leon (Bradley Cooper), a street photographer who chases police calls for a living but prefers to document the underbelly […]
Sharp Objects, the new HBO miniseries starring Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson and based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, and the HBO Original documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind debut on all HBO platforms in July. Also arriving in July: the superhero blockbuster Justice League, Battle of the Sexes with Emma Stone and […]
Filmmaker Christopher Nolan called in his favors from Warner Bros., where made the hit Batman / Dark Knight trilogy as well as Inception and Interstellar, to make Dunkirk (2017), a big-budget World War II drama that would never have been financed on the scale Nolan envisioned without his clout behind it. Warner may have been […]
The HBO Original movie Fahrenheit 451, based on the novel by Ray Bradbury and starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon, and Christopher Nolan’s immersive World War I drama Dunkirk, which was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three for editing and sound, come to HBO Now, HBO Go, and HBO On Demand in […]
Go back to the future on HBO in April: season two of the ambitious science fiction series Westworld, a smart and savvy reimagining of the 1970s movie, and War for the Planet of the Apes, the third film in the superb revival trilogy, offer radically different takes on our evolutionary course. Also coming in April […]
