Last week I was scrolling through Netflix looking for something to pass the time. I came across “Manhunt: Unabomber” (2017, Discovery Channel) and decided to give it a shot. I ended up watching all eight […]
When I first got into tennis fandom and learned about the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs Battle of the Sexes of the 1970s, I assumed it was some sort of novelty sideshow. After all, when Agassi […]
Available via streaming and Redbox, “Chuck” was quietly in and out of theaters in 2017. The biopic’s titular character, Chuck Wepner (Liev Schreiber), is also under the radar: He was a local legend in Bayonne, […]
I used to listen to Kumail Nanjiani’s “X-Files Files” podcast, and occasionally he’d reference the time when his girlfriend was in a coma. Although it registered with me as an unusual thing to have in one’s […]
Whether Trump or Clinton wins the election tonight, the NSA’s spying program will continue, so it seems like a good time to watch “Snowden,” the most hyped-up liberty-themed film of the year. Oliver Stone’s chronicle of the […]
The seventh “Rocky” film, “Creed” — which comes out on Nov. 25 – is on paper quite a departure from the first six, which were all written by Sylvester Stallone and directed by Stallone or John G. […]
“The Fifth Estate” is the liberty-themed movie I was most looking forward to this year. But while it is too loaded with important ideas to dismiss entirely, it is rather disappointing coming on the heels of […]
Movie review: James Wan’s film doesn’t conjure up new surprises, but it’s still scary.
Similar to “Miracle” and “61*,” “42” isn’t a particularly challenging sports movie, but it is thoroughly enjoyable and an important historical document. People very familiar with Jackie Robinson’s story will find it faithful and adequate, those somewhat […]
Being both an “important” movie and a “feel-good” movie, right off the bat “Won’t Back Down” is in danger of being filled with cartoon villains that you want to punch in the face even as the story […]