Victor Frankenstein 

In 19th-century London, medical student Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy) helps a hunchback (Daniel Radcliffe), who has great knowledge of human anatomy, escape from a circus. We’ve seen the Mary Shelley…

Bringing Up Baby: David, Susan and the Big Cat

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Photo: RKO There are some people who love making the argument that sometimes critics are ”wrong” whenever a panned movie becomes a box-office hit. As…

I Am Curious (Blue)

Director Vilgot Sjöman divided his I Am Curious project into two movies. This follow-up to Yellow continues in the same vein, with a fictitious romance and a socialist examination of…

Green Book 

In the early 1960s, New York City bouncer Tony ”Lip” (Viggo Mortensen) is hired by an African-American concert pianist (Mahershala Ali) for a tour through the Deep South; he’ll serve…

The Lion King: Feeling the Love

Photo: Disney In the early 1990s, during the production of the songs for Disney’s upcoming animated adventure The Lion King, West End legend Tim Rice had been hired to write…

Aniara 

Sometime in the future, passengers are boarding a spacecraft that will take them from an ailing Earth to Mars, but Aniara subsequently faces a tremendous challenge… Swedish science fiction may…

I Am Curious: Too Sexy for U.S. Customs

Börje Ahlstedt and Lena Nyman. Photo: Sandrew When this film reached the United States in the late 1960s, there was controversy. U.S. Customs had the film impounded and it remained…

Ant-Man and the Wasp 

After the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016), Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is under house arrest; soon, he becomes involved in an attempt to find Hope’s (Evangeline Lilly) mother…

Blue Thunder

L.A. cop and helicopter pilot Frank Murphy (Roy Scheider) is ordered to attend a demonstration of a new advanced helicopter called ”Blue Thunder”; while impressed, he's also wary of what…

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation 

Mavis books a cruise for Dracula and the whole gang; after reluctantly boarding the ship, the old vampire falls head over heels for its human captain. The third chapter introduces…