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The Bride! is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film as a writer/director. She goes from an awards-contending drama to a big-budget Gothic romance inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the 1935 movie The Bride of Frankenstein. Frankenstein’s Monster (Christian Bale) arrives in Chicago in 1936 to find a brilliant but controversial scientist, Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening). Frank […]
In Tim Fehlbaum’s taut journalistic thriller September 5, we’re whisked back to the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany – a location that is familiar to those who have seen Steven Spielberg’s Munich or the Oscar-winning documentary One Day in September, although I somehow missed both films and also didn’t actually know how the events […]
Before I embarked on my television critic career, I was a lawyer. Which means I have a heck of a hard time watching legal shows without finding myself yelling at the screen as they butcher the practice of law in order to make it seem suspenseful or at all interesting (because, in reality, being a […]
Batman is one of the most enduring superheroes, having a legacy of over 80 years. Robert Pattinson is the latest actor to take on the role with Matt Reeves putting his own spin on the franchise. Bruce Wayne (Pattinson) has been Batman for two years. Gotham is still a crime-infested hellhole and plagued with social […]
If you haven’t paid attention to the ever-worsening opioid crisis in America, Dopesick will likely be an eye-opening miniseries for you. If you have, however, been aware of just what has gone on throughout the 25 or so years since Purdue Pharmaceuticals released OxyContin to the market, well, then you’ll likely find much of what […]