Adult melodramas are usually hit or miss for a lot of audience members. When played right, they can become absorbing and endlessly engaging. A perfect example would be Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2003). That film was a...

Garry Marshall likes two things late in his directorial career: holidays and large casts. He first tackled Valentine’s Day with the star-studded film Valentine’s Day, then New Year’s Eve with an even more star-powered New Year’...

At the beginning of Papa: Hemingway in Cuba, Ed Meyers (a lackluster Giovanni Ribisi), a thirty-something journalist with the Miami Globe in 1959, claims that Ernest “Papa” Hemingway (Adrian Sparks), saved his life. He says the...