Oz: Yellow Brick Road to Pain

Ernie Hudson, Eamonn Walker, Harold Perrineau and Terry Kinney. Photo: HBO Today, Oz is considered a seminal event in the history of American television. HBO’s first hour-long drama series, the…

It Ends with Us

Just as she’s opening a flower shop in Boston, Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) falls in love with a handsome neurosurgeon (Justin Baldoni)… but then her high-school sweetheart (Brandon Sklenar) reappears.…

Delicious

In 1789, a brilliant cook (Grégory Gadebois) is fired by his master, the Duke of Chamfort (Benjamin Lavernhe), and retreats to a stagecoach stop where his father lives; he’s joined…

Young Woman and the Sea

A very slickly produced biopic about the first woman to swim across the English Channel, a feat accomplished in 1926 by Trudy Ederle, an American with German roots. She survived…

Masculine-Feminine

One of Jean-Luc Godard’s most archetypal 1960s films has everything you’d associate the decade with culturally and politically – Vietnam, the young versus de Gaulle, and sexual liberation, with men…

The Lost King

The real-life story of how a woman became obsessed with Richard III, had a hunch that his remains might lie under a car park in Leicester – and turned out…

Paths of Glory: Seething with Rage

Kirk Douglas. Photo: United Artists ”The paths of glory lead but to the grave”. Famous words from Thomas Gray’s 1751 poem ”Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”. Author Humphrey Cobb…

Is Paris Burning?

The book is a classic, dramatized account of the liberation of Paris in 1944, creating a mosaic of exciting individual stories in the shadow of great historical events. The movie…

Fancy Dance

Ever since her sister went missing, small-time hustler Jax (Lily Gladstone) takes care of her niece (Isabel DeRoy-Olson) and teaches her tricks… but now she risks losing her. In her…

Where the Crawdads Sing

In 1968, a local quarterback (Harris Dickinson) is found dead at the bottom of a fire tower and a woman (Daisy Edgar-Jones) known as ”the Marsh Girl” is arrested on…