Wish (2023)Directors: Chris Buck, Fawn VeerasunthornScreenwriters: Jennifer Lee, Allison MooreStarring: Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama, Harvey Guillén, Evan Peters, Ramy Youssef, Jon Rudnitsky Celebrating one hundred years of Disney is a daunting creative challenge. What began as a small animation studio has grown into an entertainment … Read more

“I don’t know how much movies should entertain. To me I’m interested in movies that scar.” – David Fincher (“Seventh Hell” by Mark Salisbury) David Fincher is one of the most accomplished filmmakers working in 21st-century Hollywood. He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The … Read more

“I don’t know how much movies should entertain. To me I’m interested in movies that scar.” – David Fincher (“Seventh Hell” by Mark Salisbury) David Fincher is one of the most accomplished filmmakers working in 21st-century Hollywood. He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The … Read more

Napoleon (2023)Director: Ridley ScottScreenwriter: David ScarpaStarring: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Rupert Everett, Paul Rhys Nearly twenty-five years after Ridley Scott’s sweeping epic Gladiator reshaped the modern historical blockbuster and restored the director to awards-season prominence, Scott returns with Napoleon, a lavish, high-budget portrait of one of history’s most chronicled figures. With Joaquin Phoenix … Read more

Napoleon (2023)Director: Ridley ScottScreenwriter: David ScarpaStarring: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Rupert Everett, Paul Rhys Nearly twenty-five years after Ridley Scott’s Gladiator re-established his reputation for epic historical filmmaking, he teams again with Joaquin Phoenix to dramatize the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. With lavish production design, meticulous costumes, and a sprawling timeline that stretches … Read more

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)Director: John HughesScreenwriter: John HughesStarring: Steve Martin, John Candy Few films capture the spirit and frustrations of holiday travel as memorably as John Hughes’ 1987 classic, Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Over the years it has become synonymous with Thanksgiving viewing for many families, a comic and heartfelt antidote to the bustle … Read more

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)Director: John HughesScreenwriter: John HughesStarring: Steve Martin, John Candy Few films are as closely linked to the Thanksgiving season as John Hughes’ 1987 comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles. For many viewers it has become the definitive post-feast movie: a film that blends broad, screwball humor with unexpected emotional depth. While Hughes … Read more

Thanksgiving (2023)Director: Eli RothScreenwriters: Jeff RendelStarring: Patrick Dempsey, Nell Verlaque, Addison Rae, Rick Hoffman, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Gina Gershon Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving returns to the classic slasher playground with a film that wears its influences proudly. The movie grew out of a mock trailer first shown in the 2007 double feature experiment; that … Read more

Thanksgiving (2023)Director: Eli RothScreenwriters: Jeff RendelStarring: Patrick Dempsey, Nell Verlaque, Addison Rae, Rick Hoffman, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Gina Gershon Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving arrives as a blunt, gleefully vicious entry in the modern slasher canon. Born from a mock-trailer concept first seen in the Grindhouse double bill, this feature-length expansion leans hard into exploitation … Read more

Some directors shape the course of cinema, and Kathryn Bigelow is one of those figures in English-language film. From her first feature in 1981 through to 2017, she has consistently delivered movies that are entertaining and tightly controlled, films that combine visceral spectacle with serious thematic weight. As the first woman to win the Academy … Read more