Bradley Cooper starring as a chef in a movie about food and how it reflects life. How can it miss? Exhibit A: Burnt, a cheerless and unappetizing plate of piffle that deserves to be smashed against a wall or at least sent back to the kitchen. Director John Wells, who botched… Source: Rolling […]

Political satire needs creative juice to hit its targets. The livewire in Our Brand is Crisis is Sandra Bullock who is fiercely funny and touching as “Calamity Jane” Bodine. She’s an American campaign strategist now jobbing in Bolivia to jumpstart the stalled presidential campaign of Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida). Jane’s… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Sarah Silverman has a searching comic mind that makes watching her onstage a provocation as well as a pleasure. But Silverman’s role in I Smile Back is miles from laughter. Her character, Laney Brooks, is having a meltdown. She has a husband (Josh Charles) who’s only a bit of a… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Why now? You ask yourself that question while watching Suffragette, a vibrant, vigorous movie about the fight for voting rights for British women in the early part of the 20th century. Then the light dawns. The sad truth is that gender bias has never stopped spreading its toxins and I… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

If you have a comedy-drama about a rock manager at the last stages of a dismal career — he says he discovered Madonna (he didn’t) and books his last client (a game Zooey Deschanel) on a USO tour of Afghanistan — you need to find exactly the right actor to… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Jack Black fires up this crazy-scary-funny film version of R.L. Stine’s bestselling kid-lit horror tales. Stine wrote more than a hundred of these spooky buggers. Too much to cram into one movie? You’d think. But director Rob Letterman, working from a script by Darren Lemke, stuffs about 25 monsters into… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Guillermo del Toro doesn’t merely direct movies. He paints them, dreams them, shapes them into private fantasies. His 2007 fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth won the Mexican director a slew of awards. And his visionary style is again readily apparent in Crimson Peak, a ghost story in which superior camerawork, costumes and production… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Looking for something unique and unforgettable? Room is it. Based on a 2010 novel by Emma Donoghue, who wrote the screenplay, Room puts us up close and personal with Joy (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son, Jack (Jacob Tremblay). They play games, cook meals and bond with genuine affection. It… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

This probing look at TV news is (unlike the upcoming Spotlight) a trip into the dark side of journalism. CBS producer Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) climbs a slippery slope when she organizes a segment for 60 Minutes II, with CBS News anchor Dan Rather (Robert Redford) at the helm, suggesting that… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Hard to watch, impossible to forget. That’s Beasts of No Nation, a grueling war story set in an unnamed African country. Idris Elba gives a powerhouse performance as the commandant, the warlord of a rebel army that trains children as soldiers. His new recruit is Agu (Ghanaian discovery Abraham Attah), a… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]