Moby Dick (1956)

Moby Dick (1956)

[5] Gregory Peck is Captain Ahab in John Huston's adaptation of Melville's classic novel. Peck is reliably charismatic in the role, and the movie is at its best when it stays with him. Huston's style is not an overly romantic one --…
Pinky (1949)

Pinky (1949)

[7] Elia Kazan directs a trio of Oscar-nominated performances in this adaptation of the Cid Ricketts Sumner novel. Jeanne Crain (State Fair, A Letter to Three Wives) stars as Pinky, a light-skinned African American woman returning to her impoverished southern hometown after…
The Snowtown Murders (2011)

The Snowtown Murders (2011)

[7] Director Justin Kurzel tells the true story of Australia's most notorious serial killer through the eyes of his teenaged accomplice. Teenager Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) falls in with his mother's new boyfriend, John Bunting (Daniel Henshall). Bunting becomes a father figure to…
Christopher Robin (2018)

Christopher Robin (2018)

[6] Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) is all grown up. He's weathered the horrors of WWII, gotten married, had a child, and now he's caught in the day-to-day grind of working life. Meanwhile, Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, and the other residents of the…
BlacKkKlansman (2018)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

[7] Spike Lee directs the stranger-than-fiction true story of a black Colorado police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. John David Washington stars as Ron Stallworth, who struck up a relationship with local KKK members over the phone…
Hereditary (2018)

Hereditary (2018)

[7] Writer/director Ari Aster brings us one of the more original and interesting horror movies of the last few years -- I just wish it moved faster than molasses in January. Toni Collette stars as a woman who finds herself simultaneously mourning…
The Meg (2018)

The Meg (2018)

[3] Jason Statham headlines this giant killer shark movie that is far more concerned with pandering sentimental bullshit to Chinese audiences than entertaining American audiences. The Meg should be an exploitation action/horror flick. And indeed director Jon Turteltaub and star Statham are…
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

[7] After the polarizing (and frankly great) The Last Jedi, and the almost insufferable Rogue One, I wasn't quite sure what to expect from another Star Wars movie. But I was excited about the casting of Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo, because…
Deadpool 2 (2018)

Deadpool 2 (2018)

[7] SPOILERS. I think. If you care, don't read! I'm so glad we have a superhero who flirts with both men and women. In Deadpool 2, Ryan Reynold's wisecracking vigilante is seen grabbing the iron ass of Colossus, going tip to tip with…
A Quiet Place (2018)

A Quiet Place (2018)

[7] John Krasinski and Emily Blunt star in this high-concept apocalyptic horror flick in which the human race has been decimated by creatures of unknown origin that have super-hearing abilities. And if they hear you, they kill you. So the few survivors…