This wasn’t the first time I had seen “Cast Away,” but this particular rewatch had me feeling differently about Tom Hanks’ experience on the island. Somewhere between him spear-fishing and making fire for the first time, I thought, “Man, this looks like a lot of fun.”
In movies with characters who have a disability, the role should always be first considered for people who have the same disability, have lived these experiences and are able to accurately portray them. We need to approach this situation with solutions, so people no longer have to suffer misrepresentation or lack of representation when watching a character they wanted to relate to.
“The Post” is one of those rare movies that’s released at just the right time.
Following the story of The New York Times’ and The Washington Post’s publication of the sensitive Vietnam...
On Thanksgiving Day, after my stomach was packed to my liking with turkey, potatoes and pie, I sat in front of my television to do what millions of other Americans have done for decades — watch football....
More than seven and a half years ago, Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger landed US Airways flight 1549 on the Hudson River after the plane’s engines failed. The emergency water landing resulted...
It was a very special day Monday. It only comes once a year, and America always holds its breath in anticipation. It was Opening Day on Monday, which means it’s the start to the Major League Baseball...
If all movies from now on were built solely on Tom Hanks and xenophobia, worse things would have happened. After all, wouldn’t the true story of a soft-spoken New Englander and his brush with foreign...
There is very little that can be explained about Tom Twyker and Lana and Andy Wackowski’s new film Cloud Atlas, which was released on Oct. 26. This confusion is almost expected given the dense material...
