Barry Pepper

Although The Painted Bird is only director Vaclav Marhoul’s third film (his previous works include Smart Phillip [2003] and Tobruk [2008]), it is, in short, an epic masterpiece of cinematic accomplishment. In an effort to spare their child the horrors of the Holocaust, a Jewish couple send their son Joska (Petr Kotlár) to live out the war in safety with a relative somewhere in the Eastern European...[Read More]

"Maze Runner: The Death Cure" has romance, action, despair, and everything in between. For people who like action movies this is definitely worth watching.

The history of America’s “War on Drugs” has produced many stories. One of the lesser-known ones is that of the late Gary Webb, an investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News who wrote a series of articles about the CIA’s involvement in cocaine trafficking into the United States. The film Kill the Messenger tries to tell the story of Webb and the backlash he faced because of hi...[Read More]

Mark Wahlberg’s new film Broken City is, in a word, broken. There is so much left unsaid as well as unfinished in this movie, the audience is left with way too much to fill in the blanks. There are problems with open-ended romances. There are problems with insinuated relationships that may or may not have been gay and who really cares if they are anyway. There are definite problems with the ...[Read More]