45 Years: Solid and Fragile

Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling. Photo: BFI My parents have been married for 44 years. I’m fascinated by couples who have stayed together that many decades. I find it almost…

Dunkirk: Surviving the Beach

Photo: Warner About 25 years ago, Christopher Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas were crossing the English Channel together with a friend. They were in a small sailing yacht headed…

The Thin Man: Cocktails and a Mystery

Photo: MGM When William Powell arrived on his first day on the set of this film, he was going to shoot the scene where his character Nick Charles would be…

Notting Hill

The most popular movie star in Hollywood (Julia Roberts) meets a London book-store owner (Hugh Grant) and they fall in love… but can a romance like that work out? Writer…

War for the Planet of the Apes

A few years after the events of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), the war between apes and humans is growing bloodier and Caesar finds a personal enemy…

The Truman Show: Before Big Brother

Jim Carrey. Photo: Paramount There’s an episode of Twilight Zone, the 1980s revival, called ”Special Service” that aired in 1989. Written by J. Michael Straczynski, who later created the sci-fi…

Spider-Man: Homecoming

As Peter Parker (Tom Holland) tries to juggle high school with serving as Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey, Jr.) apprentice, a new villain (Michael Keaton) emerges who’s taken advantage of alien…

Okja 

Young Mija (Ahn Seo-hyun) lives in the South Korean countryside with her grandfather and Okja, a huge super pig… but soon the corporation that created this genetic marvel is coming…

Get Me Roger Stone

After the 2016 presidential election, it only seemed logical to see a documentary about the shameless Republican strategist Roger Stone – getting Donald Trump into the White House was after…