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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’s Eve, and now Mother’s Day in his new film, you guessed it, Mother’s Day. Although the cast is not as large as his other two holiday romantic comedies, there’s still no lac...[Read More]

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 author helped him become a writer and provided him with hope during an orphaned childhood. After Ed was fired for misspelling “maybe,” he stayed up nights during his probat...[Read More]

Anticipation for Midnight Special was high heading into the film’s release. Perhaps, even a little too high. So much had been said about director Jeff Nichols and haunting muse Michael Shannon that the Internet had many thinking it would rocket off into another dimension of quality. That it would be this generation’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. (1982), and Starman (1984) wrappe...[Read More]