BLEED FOR THIS

A big year for boxing movies, first with Jonathan Jakubowicz’s “Hands of Stone” with Edgar Ramirez as Roberto Duran and now writer/director Ben Younger’s BLEED

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ARRIVAL

Perhaps more appropriate for opening this week than was ever thought when planning film release schedules is Denis Villeneuve’s ARRIVAL. Written by Eric Heisserer based

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HACKSAW RIDGE

Let’s just cut to the chase. HACKSAW RIDGE is the BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR! It’s been ten years since Mel Gibson stepped behind the

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IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE

As if David MacKenzie’s award-worthy “Hell or High Water” wasn’t enough of a reason to celebrate cinema, and particularly the American western, Antoine Fuqua brought

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DESIERTO

A film could not be more timely given the current election cycle than DESIERTO. Directed by Jonas Cuaron and co-written by Cuaron and Mateo Garcia,

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PRICELESS

There has been relatively little attention paid in movies to the issue of sex trafficking, particularly the “human” aspect of it; 2007 gave us Kevin

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STORKS

In a day and age where kids are losing the innocence of childhood and the idea of myth, fantasy, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Mother

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SNOWDEN

We all know the name Edward Snowden. A former CIA employee and contractor to various U.S. government agencies and its sub-contractors, Snowden turned the world

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