One of the more likable entries in the post-Rocky sports-film boom, a fact-based story about a little nowhere on the Indiana map named Hickory whose high-school basketball team got all the way to the state championship game in 1952. Much of that likableness is due to the restraints of temperament …
John Boorman's autobiographical film about a London family in the Blitz — with himself running wild as a small boy in a fabulous rubbled playground — has gotten hearty congratulations for what it is not. It is not Mrs. Miniver and The Battle of Britain and stiff-upper-lip and There'll Always …
A slathering application of elbow grease in an effort to buff up the marmoreal screen image of Sandra Bullock. But no sort of luster can come through the layer-of-dust cinematography. The opening sequence, in which the heroine gets sandbagged on a Ricki Lake-like talk show with the news of her …
What began with his mother reanimating frozen goldfish eventually leads a Buddhist scientist from Bangkok to believe it possible to cryo-preserve the brain of his two-year-old daughter who succumbed to cancer. We all grieve in our own way, why shouldn’t keeping fingers cryogenically crossed be one of them? The kid’s …
True story of a community whose lives were transformed as they learn what it means to truly wait for Jesus. This sweeping drama, set in 19th-century New England, invites audiences of all ages to imagine how hope can change the world.
The title serves double-duty: a cove tucked under the cliffs of Seaford that bookends the action and that indelicate emotional space between exceedingly erudite lovers who have experienced their last gasp of romance. Grace (Annette Bening) is surprised to learn their son Jamie (Josh O’Connor) didn’t call his mother to …
A couple (Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones) seeks counseling after 30 years of marriage. Steve Carell plays the counselor, but don't come looking for laughs about old-people sex.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Costner directs a multi-faceted chronicle covering the Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Costner directs a multi-faceted chronicle covering the Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West.
Why would a civilian war correspondent risk life and limb to send home pictorial confirmation of government-sanctioned brutality? David Salzberg and Christian Tureaud’s harrowing documentary The Hornet’s Nest answers the question. Mike Boettcher’s 34 years of dedication to his job as network correspondent helped earn him enough Absentee Father of …
Three regular guys decide to kill their three horrible bosses; hijinks ensue. There are hints of the kind of gleeful malice (on both sides of the employee-employer divide) that could make this kind of story into a wicked black comedy — Jennifer Aniston has the most fun of anyone as …