• 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

  • Steven Soderbergh is perhaps our most adventurous filmmaker. He straddles the worlds of big-budget Hollywood and Independent cinema with ease and skill. We never know what kind of film he will do next and, good or bad, Soderbergh always surprises.

    His latest film is “The Laundromat,” a look at the Panama Papers scandal based ever so loosely on Jake Bernstein’s book

  • Over a week ago the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops was marked. Auschwitz is an emblem, a name that's burned in humanity's collective soul and one that behooves us to pay attention, to understand, and to never forget. In another seventy years, there won't be any survivors left but this anniversary will be observed again, presumably, and every seventy years after this. As participants in this

  • It isn’t every day you get the likes of Meryll Streep and Tommy Lee Jones in a romantic comedy, even the very idea seems like two actors doing a bit of slumming, but instead they make “Hope Springs” really pop with an honest, funny, and moving portrayal of a marriage on the rocks. They play Kay and Arnold, a couple married thirty-one years who have hit a bit of a rough patch. They’ve been sleeping in separate beds. When Kay tries to remedy this, Arnold uncom-

  • Margaret Thatcher will be portrayed by Meryl Streep in this upcoming biopic slated for theatrical release this December; Thatcher's enormously strong-willed foreign policy and the price she's had to pay for her outsized posturing will form the underpinnings of this day-in-the-life-styled film. Thatcher, who is still alive, suffers from Alzheimers disease and has retired from public life. Other cast members include Jim Broadbent playing Denis Thatcher, the iron lady's husband.

  • Smart. Witty. Cool. Hip. Imaginative. Different. And, like any good […]

  • Doubt, which recently sailed into movie theatres, seems to suffer […]