Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) may sound like a one-joke contrivance—a rich, generous, arts-loving heiress in 1940s New York City gives private recitals to a select group of high society insiders who never let on to the oblivious woman that she is quite possibly the worst singer to ever trod a stage—but it is both a […]
Cloud Atlas (2012) wants nothing for ambition. Jumping between six distinctive stories in six different eras, with a cast that plays different (yet connected) parts in the various storyline, it’s at once literal and evasive, a film that wears its heart on its beautifully stitched sleeve and its meaning in its design and yet finds […]
If you are in the nay camp in the split decision over the new James Bond film, try the old-school spy games of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Guy Ritchie’s big screen revival of the sixties secret agent series. It’s an origin story of sorts—think “When Napoleon met Illya”—with the two agents in a wary partnership, […]
