Jackie: After Dealey Plaza

Caspar Phillipson and Natalie Portman. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures Chilean director Pablo Larraín was about to make his first American film, but had doubts. He had been offered a biopic…

Moonlight: Three Shades of Blue

Alex Hibbert and Mahershala Ali. Photo: A24 I love the poster for this film. The colors are deep shades of blue, purple and cyan and the three faces of the…

No 

In 1988, dictator Augusto Pinochet allows the people of Chile to vote on the future of his regime; ad man René Saavedra (Gael García Bernal) is hired by the opposition…

Looking 

One of the most explicit TV series ever made about gay men followed a group of friends in San Francisco, with focus on the 29-year-old game designer Patrick (Jonathan Groff)…

Torment: Hell in a Classroom

Stig Järrel and Alf Kjellin. Photo: SF This was the first screenplay Ingmar Bergman got filmed. According to one of his autobiographies, it was also his first experience of actually…

The Karate Kid, Part II 

When Miyagi (Noriyuki Pat Morita) learns that his father is dying, he and Daniel (Ralph Macchio) go to Okinawa where they are confronted by an old nemesis of Miyagi’s, and…

The Karate Kid 

Teenager Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) moves with his mother to California, meets a girl, makes enemies with the young members of a local karate dojo, and befriends a mysterious, elderly…

Creed 

Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan), the son of legendary heavyweight champ Apollo Creed, talks his father’s one-time rival and best friend Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) into training him. After six…

The Greatest Show on Earth

Often labeled one of the worst Best Picture Oscar winners ever, this look at all the drama behind the scenes of a big top circus still is a grand epic.…

Titanic: A Wreck Comes Alive

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Photo: 20th Century Fox Twentieth Century Fox wasn’t sure about letting James Cameron make an epic movie about the 1912 sinking of Titanic – especially…