"City of Gold" is a documentary about food critic Jonathan Gold and the vast influence of his column on life in Los Angeles and beyond. Producer-director Laura Gabbert and her camera crew followed Gold all around Los Angeles city and county as he visited restaurants large and [..]

"The Wave" is an well produced Norwegian language disaster film about rock slides causing a tidal wave that threaten a small tourist town in one of the nation's famous fjords. The screenplay by John Kare Raoke and Harald Rosenlow-Eeg is really textbook disaster storyline from the 1970's [..]

"A War" is an insightful war picture written and directed by Danish filmmaker Tobias Lindholm. This nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar tells the story of a Danish military unit fighting the Taliban in the Afghanistan War. It centers on company commander Claus Pederson, [..]

Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay star as a couple whose forty-fifth wedding anniversary is disrupted by news that the body of his girlfriend from the 1960's has been discovered in a melting glacier in Switzerland. Rampling's performance impressed Academy voters enough that they [..]

An obscure independent film surprised everyone by winning the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2015. "Spotlight" tells the true story of the Boston Globe's investigation into what turned out to be widespread child abuse by Roman Catholic priests. Director-screenwriter Tom McCarthy ("Meet the Parents" [..]

"Get Hard" is a comedy-crime film about a wealthy investment bank manager who is framed for a crime he did not commit; he asks his car washing attendant to help him prepare for prison. This film had potential for some fun comedy, but [..]

Leonardo DiCaprio won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of a man on a fur trading expedition in the 1820's fighting for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by his own hunting group. Producer-director Alejandro Inarritu ("The Birdman" 2014) made [..]

Tom Selleck returns for his ninth and final film in the Jesse Stone series. "Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise" once again has Selleck playing the LAPD officer who ends up in the town of Paradise, Massachusetts, as their police chief. The comfortable [..]

"Vacation" is a mediocre remake of the 1983 comedy film, complete with stupid adults, filthy-mouthed children, and an excessive amount of f-bombs. There are some genuinely funny moments in the midst of the ridiculousness from first time directors-screenwriters Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley. The story [..]

Director Bill Pohlad ("Into the Wild" 2007) gives us an unconventional view of musician Brian Wilson's struggle with depression and mental illness in "Love and Mercy." Pohlad and screenwriters Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner have two stories going on at the same time. Actor Paul [..]