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It’s a fitting farewell to Natasha Romanoff, and though it’s well overdue, “Black Widow,” in all its epic scale and strong performances, is worth the wait.
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Lelio was invigorated by the idea of a new “Gloria.” As he explained in an interview with The Daily Californian, his motivation came primarily from one source: Julianne Moore.
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“Disobedience” is a tender portrayal of love that invites beauty as well as suffering, in which Weisz and McAdams give stellar performances.
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“My Cousin Rachel” is a tease at best — which is unfortunate, because it had the potential to be an exciting dark romance, thriller, mystery or all of the above.
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It’s summer! So why not spend it planning your fall-semester leisure time in advance? Jokes aside, the Cannes Film Festival recently announced its winning films of 2015. Though most haven’t been released in the United States yet, keep an eye out for the following come fall: “The Lobster” | Winner of
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“The Great and Powerful Oz” is a Disneyfied downfall compared to the 1939 classic. Big names like James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams bring clout to the release but turn out flat characters overshadowed by the extraneous use of CGI.
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After a 12-year hiatus, director Terence Davies adapts Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play “The Deep Blue Sea” into an operatic glimpse at a woman’s disillusionment with a world unable to reciprocate the nuclear love that’s sprouted within her. The film begins with a suicide attempt by Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), the
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It’s not “nostalgia” for a cinema of the past that haunts “The Deep Blue Sea,” director Terence Davies explained, but a “yearning.” That purely cinematic ache pulsing through the British auteur’s latest film, a hushed, melancholy exploration of love through the eyes of the impossibly romantic Hester (Rachel Weisz), is
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The dream house in “Dream House” is hardly a dream house. It’s actually pretty mediocre. A two-story cottage tucked in the sleepy snow of New England suburbs, filled with secret histories and haunted antechambers — it’s the stuff of Thomas Kinkade’s nightmares. But Will (Daniel Craig) and Libby (Rachel Weisz)
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