Oscar Best Picture Nominee “The Post” | Read All About It
In select theaters this Christmas • Starring Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep • Director Steven Spielberg • TLM Rating 3/4 "This movie is a well-oiled machine." With "The Post," Steven Spielberg is able to make history...
Holiday Movies | “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” is Worth the Stop
In theaters now • Starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Peter Dinklage, Sam Rockwell • TLM Rating 4/4 "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," is one of the best movies of the year Songwriters are often asked whether...
The Hand You’re “Dealt”
Winner, SXSW Audience Award for Documentary Feature • ‘Dealt’ is available on demand + plays select Texas cities in November • TLM Rating 3/4 When setting out to make a documentary, it helps to have...
“Thor: Ragnarok” Puts the Hammer Down
'Thor: Ragnarok' opens nationwide November 3, 2017 • Cate Blanchett, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston • TLM Rating 3/4 Gone is the Thor of yore. The god of thunder is no longer the stoic, hopelessly noble Avenger,...
‘Suburbicon’ | There Goes the Neighborhood
Suburbicon opens nationwide October 27, 2017 • Dir. George Clooney • Matt Damon, Julianne Moore • TLM Rating 2/4 There's a deep-seated satisfaction from seeing something unravel, especially when it has made claims of perfection. In this spirit,...
It’s Not Enough to be “Lucky”
Starring Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston • TLM Rating 2/4 "Lucky" serves up a slice of life. It's the final slice with the fly on it that everyone tries to avoid but—in this metaphor, at least—cannot. The...
Blade Runner 2049 Gives New Life to Old Ideas
Blade Runner 2049 opens nationwide October 6, 2017 • Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas • TLM Rating 3.5/4 "Blade Runner 2049" doesn't try to up the original in any way; the words, "bigger" and "better," which are so...
‘mother!’ Knows Best
TLM Rating: 4/4 After a series of seemingly nonsensical images, "mother!" drops us into an empty cavity of a house, nonetheless inhabited by a married couple—though they behave more like married individuals. Of the two,...
‘War’: What is it Good For?
"War for the Planet of the Apes" had me worried. With the first word in the title and the average trilogy's tendency to up the ante in all the wrong ways, I expected something brash, bloated and focused on...
