Defiant Success

Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri  opens on the titular structures, decrepit after years of neglect. Mildred...

Romance and coming-of-age often go hand in hand, the reason being the simplest one: first love is incredibly potent. The exhilaration of fee...

Early on in Fatih Akin's In the Fade , it's established that Katja Sekerci (Diane Kruger) has a charmed home life. Her husband is ...

Childhood is something that's often cherished. Many times, however, the ugliness of what happens in that short period of life doesn...

The very moment Peyton Reed's Down with Love  begins, it's clear that it'll be a pastiche of the many romantic comedies of the...

Growing old is very seldom something one looks forward to. (As Roger Daltrey sang, "I hope I die before I get old.") The sense ...

The opening moments of Elliot Silverstein's Cat Ballou  pretty much establishes the general mood of it all, what with Nat King Cole (w...

Within the last few weeks, numerous women (and several men) in Hollywood have come forth after years of silence against the men who sexual...

The morality of people is something that can provide solid fodder if used properly. What can cause someone to betray both their beliefs an...

It's very clear how to distinguish a film by Michael Haneke from any other. Many times his works cross a certain line, other times the...