The Marvel factory assembly line continues to work overtime.  In a 1989 introduction, Dr. Hank Pym (a younger looking Michael Douglas, effectively digitally cleaned) doesn’t want his Ant-Man technology falling into the wrong hands.  Whoever dons the suit and presses the buttons decreases in size but increases in strength.  “As long as I’m alive,” he […]

After a several clips of early black and white newsreel footage portraying America during the depression – men holding unemployed signs, lines at the food kitchens, homeless families huddled together – Jimmy’s Hall, the new, well crafted, real-life drama from English director Ken Loach, cuts to Ireland, 1932. Jimmy Gralton (a nicely understated performance from […]

The grief a parent experiences after the loss of a child is the kind of emotion others can’t even begin to imagine.  As the leader of a mother’s support group states in the new independent drama, Lila & Eve, it does things to the mind.  It plays tricks. “We feel guilt and depression,” the leader […]

When it comes to Sherlock Holmes, the devil is in the details.  In the new mystery/drama Mr. Holmes there’s an opening scene on a train heading south when an elderly Holmes (Sir Ian McKellen) informs a young boy of something.  He tells the child that the bee on the carriage window is in reality not […]