Pain and Glory, directed and written by Pedro Almodovar, has just been selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
Pain and Glory: Personal Film from Almodovar, in Top Form–One of Year’s Best Movies
December 13, 2019 by
Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, A (2019): Marielle Heller’s Triumphant Profile of TV Icon Fred Rogers, Starring Tom Hanks
November 27, 2019 by
The premise is simple but the tale and its central character are not in Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a captivating chronicle of the beloved TV icon Fred Rogers, perfectly played by Tom Hanks.
Giant: Revisiting George Stevens Epic, Starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean in his Last Role
November 16, 2019 by
Even critics who consider Giant to be too sprawling a saga, more impressive in ambition than execution, agree that the scenes between James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor generate heat, and that the racial element is poignant and ahead of its times.
I Am Cuba (1964): Kalatozov’s Visually Dazzling Political Feature
November 13, 2019 by
Mikhail Kalatozov directed I Am Cuba, a visually dazzling, explicitly political movie, which was an international co-production of the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Joker: Most Commercial R-Rated Film (Beating Deadpool Movies)
October 26, 2019 by
Joker has passed Deadpool 2 to become the highest-grossing R-rated film ever, boasting a global box office total of $788.1 million to date.
