In “Miss Bala,” a disappointingly bland genre exercise directed by Catherine Hardwicke (“Twilight,” “Thirteen”), a Los Angeles makeup artist heads to Tijuana, Mexico, to help her best friend enter a local beauty pageant. Big mistake. Amid a hail of bullets and a string of explosions, our innocent heroine is repeatedly abducted, exploited, threatened and terrorized … Read more
MS diagnosis came in August but Hollywood star has lived with symptoms for years The American actor Selma Blair has been praised for speaking candidly about having multiple sclerosis (MS). In an Instagram post the 46-year-old Cruel Intentions star said she had been officially diagnosed in August but had experienced symptoms for years. View this post … Read more
Stenberg is the star of a new adaptation of the YA novel phenomenon. The actor, and the film’s director, discuss cinema’s new generation of resistance Any resemblance between The Hate U Give and your average teen movie evaporates about 20 minutes in, when 16-year-old Starr Carter, played by Amandla Stenberg, witnesses a police officer shoot dead her friend … Read more
Can you believe it’s been 25 years since the original? If Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau have taught us anything, it’s that loving thy neighbor can be really, really hard. Lemmon and Matthau’s blockbuster 1993 comedy, “Grumpy Old Men” saw the late actors as neighbors and longtime rivals who are fighting for the heart of a university professor, played … Read more
Historical fiction and non-fiction movies give us an impossible opportunity. They allow us to see the important decisions and people that shaped our modern world. They also help us to better understand our ancestors, and sometimes, ourselves. But it’s tough for filmmakers and writers to nail the past down truthfully to the very last detail! In … Read more