Jan 30, 2019
Twenty-five years after first helping a London family, a magical nanny comes back to aid the now-grown Banks children in saving their Cherry Tree Lane home in director Rob Marshall’s MARY POPPINS RETURNS. Emily Blunt takes over for Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins. Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, and Lin-Manuel Miranda also...
Jan 23, 2019
Multiple realities and different versions of Spider-Man converge in Miles Morales’ hometown in Bob Perischetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman’s animated SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE.
In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer chooses ZVIZDAL: [CHERNOBYL - SO FAR SO CLOSE], the Belgian group BERLIN’s mix of...
Jan 16, 2019
Writer-director Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s novel IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, which focuses on a young couple in love and expecting a child. KiKi Layne and Stephan James star as the lovers who are torn apart when he is accused of a crime and imprisoned while their families try to prove his innocence.
Alfonso...
Jan 9, 2019
Writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen serve a slab of dark Americana in THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS. The Old West anthology film tells six tales with a cast including Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tom Waits, and Zoe Kazan.
In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects MINDING THE GAP, Bing Liu’s documentary...
Jan 2, 2019
Celeste, played as a teenager by Raffey Cassidy and as an adult by Natalie Portman, emerges from surviving a school survivor to become a jaded pop star in writer-director Brady Corbet’s VOX LUX.
In Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or-winning drama SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU) a makeshift family creates meaningful bonds...