It definitely helps to give your protagonist a certain “set of skills,” particularly if he is played by that grand master of icy revenge, Liam Neeson. Neeson, impossibly craggy yet as ruggedly handsome as ever, stars in the new film “The Marksman” as Jim, a widowered Arizona rancher with a history in the armed forces and a rather keen eye with a rifle scope—hence the title. Jim’s ranch abuts the Mexican border, and during one of his daily rounds he comes upon injured migrant Rosa

The term “weekend warrior” could as easily apply to wannabe rockers as it does to those who speed across the summer lakes—both have day jobs but live for their passions.  And being a so-called “rock god” is the aspiration of a great many, but the statistics are punishing: no matter how good you are, how many hours you devote to music, there are only so many spots at the top, with luck unfairly favoring some and not others. The answer to this unfairness

“We are two different creatures, right? You like the sound of crickets and I like the rattle of the taxis. You blossom in the sun and me, I come into my own under grey skies.”

It’s no longer a secret that Woody Allen owns New York, is it? With a passion that fuels his creativity, Allen has turned the city into a canvas that transcends time and space.  

And when he examines the lives

Regrets. The characters in Steven Soderbergh’s latest film have had a few.

Writer Deborah Eisenberg’s first screenplay “Let Them All Talk” is smart and literate and a welcome cinematic character study of people behaving like human beings.

Meryl Streep dives into one of her best roles in years playing Alice, an award-winning author who is up for yet another one

Alessandro and Arturo (Edoardo Leo and Stefano Accorsi, respectively) are a couple who face a new challenge when their dear friend Annamaria (Jasmine Trinca) comes to their doorstep with her two children in tow. Annamaria wants to leave her kids with Alessandro and Arturo while she goes into the hospital for some serious tests. As the kids move in and the two men deal with the children, truths both good and bad are revealed

2020, what a strange year it was. While movie theaters closed in late March, streaming platforms and On-Demand services made many films available to audiences. This allowed titles that should have been released in theaters to find their way to viewers without them having to wait. The plus being that, many low-budget films could compete with the bigger studio fare on a more even ground. Little films that could were given a bigger chance, perhaps the only silver lining from theaters being closed.

How many more headlines can there be about this year being unlike any other? Doubtless there will be books galore written about the madness of 2020, including how this terrible year all but killed moviegoing. “Dune,” the “Top Gun” sequel and so many other tentpole titles were pushed into 2021 or even 2022. Thus, but for the rare super-film that managed to somehow still squeak into theaters (in my view, the truly incomprehensible “Tenet”