Dallas Buyers Club comes as a victory lap in the complete career redefinition of Matthew McConaughey, rounding two years of engaged, unexpected roles in mainly independent films. His fallow period in comedies blandly paired wit...

Often in the world of movies, the hardest stories to tell are the ones based on reality. It’s even harder when there’s no access to the main people involved, leaving a tale built on hearsay and embellishments. And when the movi...

On first encountering the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man drugged and kidnapped from an educated, domestic life by opportunistic slave-traders in Washington D.C., director Steve McQueen felt he had read the “[A...