Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" is a live-action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience, staying true to the original music while updating the score with several new songs. "Beauty and the Beast" is the fantastic journey of Belle, a…

Kong: Skull Island(2017)

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures' "Kong: Skull Island" reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts ("The Kings of Summer"). In the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific - as beautiful as it…

Logan (2017)

Jackman and the fans finally get the Wolverine movie they deserve: a brutal, dusty, emotional road trip that has its very unique atmosphere and takes its time, giving its characters and their actors moments to shine. The sudden and extremely violent action scenes always work for the story, never for the mere action's sake and…

The Family

There is a moment in Luc Besson's comedy drama about a mafia snitch hiding out in Normandy when Michelle Pfeiffer pays for some shopping in francs. Suddenly, the scales fall, the clouds part and the whole thing seems to make a sort of sense. For if you'd made a film as bad as The Family,…

Hidden Figures

An uplifting true-life drama about the African-American women who played a key role in US space missions. It's 1962 and the space race is on. NASA is determined to beat the Russians in putting a man into orbit around the Earth. But behind the scenes, a trio of pioneering African-American women are responsible for the…

Wild(2014) – Reese Witherspoon

A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy. Wild has a really intriguing premise, the idea of a solo hike does it for me but I was wary that the movie lasted over 100min. What could possibly be entertaining about a women hiking alone…

The Snow Rose by Lulu Taylor

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