It’s the proverbial whale of a tale from director Ron Howard — not a remake of Moby Dick as you might expect. Instead, In the Heart of the Sea, adapted from Nathaniel Philbrick’s nonfiction bestseller, digs into the real story of the Essex, a Nantucket whaling ship destroyed by a… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

It sounds like a horror show: a doomsday epic about the 2008 financial crisis and the Wall Street wolves who got rich off it. Gone were the homes, jobs and savings of average Joes. But wait. As directed and written by Adam McKay – the dude behind Anchorman and other… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

If you haven’t seen Marion Cotillard play Lady Macbeth, you really haven’t seen the role inhabited with the glorious fire and ice it needs to haunt your dreams. The great French actress takes a torch to standard portrayals and rides the role to glory. It’s supposed to be bad luck… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

You know what this is? Nirvana for movie lovers. Film historian Kent Jones, the director of the New York Film Festival, triumphantly takes us back to 1962 when the young French filmmaker Francois Truffaut worked up the nerve to ask Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock to sit for an eight-day… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Here’s Spike Lee at his ballsiest. Who else would take Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, set in ancient Greece, and prop it up in present-day Englewood, Chicago, where violence is so prevalent the locals call it Chi-Raq, a mash-up of “Chicago” and “Iraq.” Lysistrata, the heroine of Aristophanes’ fable, convinces the women of 411… Source: Rolling […]

Fasten your seat belts for Jane Fonda, who gives a seismic jolt to Paolo Sorrentino’s exquisite meditation on art and aging. She plays Brenda Morel, a Hollywood star who visits filmmaker Mick Boyle (Harvey Kei­tel) at a lush Swiss resort. He needs her star power to get his new film… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Hot damn! We have a winner. Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler, 29, turbocharges the Rocky franchise in Creed. His focus: Adonis Johnson (a stellar Michael B. Jordan), the bastard son of late champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), the father he never knew. The kid needs Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) to train him…. Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Caitlyn Jenner is a transgender icon. But nearly a century ago, Danish painter Einar Wegener became a pioneer in gender-reassignment surgery. You can’t take your eyes off Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything), who is flat-out fabulous as Einar. As he is as Lili Elbe, the woman who begins to… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

You could find worse escapism for the holidays than watching Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie play overgrown adolescents ready to endure one last monumental Christmas hangover as long as they can have a blast the night before. That’s the movie. And it’s rowdy fun with a dash of… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Not such a good idea remaking the 2009 Argentine thriller that won the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar. The Americanized version is miscast, misguided and misbegotten. Julia Roberts takes on the role played by a male actor the first time. She’s Jess Cobb, an FBI agent on the terrorist beat after the… Source: Rolling […]