Nov 28, 2018

A grumpy, green hater of holiday cheer plots to steal Christmas from Whoville in a new 3D computer-animated version of Dr. Seuss’ THE GRINCH.  Benedict Cumberbatch voices the villain whose heart is two sizes too small.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer spotlights COLD WATER (L’EAU FROIDE), Olivier Assayas’...

Nov 21, 2018

From the rock band Queen’s early days through its Live Aid performance, director Bryan Singer’s BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY follow the group’s rise through the story of its lead singer Freddie Mercury, played by Rami Malek.

Also, Melissa McCarthy is a struggling writer who finds her work more in demand when creating and...

Nov 14, 2018

Michael Myers breaks free and seeks to terrorize Haddonfield, Illinois again forty years later, but Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode is ready and waiting to get her vengeance in co-writer/director David Gordon Green’s HALLOWEEN, a sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer...

Nov 7, 2018

Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Cynthia Erivo, and Dakota Johnson are strangers with secrets whose paths cross at the declining, border-straddling motel where they’re staying in writer-director Drew Goddard’s BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE.

Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss how, or if, one should separate the art...