Glenn McDonald

1945 Opening Friday, Feb. 23 A few months after V-E Day, outside a small Hungarian village, two strangers disembark from a train that pours sinister black smoke into the sweltering summer sky. Dressed in somber black suits, the men hire a cart to transport two steamer trunks into the village. Their arrival and the rumored […]

FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL Opening Friday, Feb. 16 Based on the 1986 memoir by British actor Peter Turner, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool chronicles the final months of actor Gloria Grahame, who charmed audiences in the forties and fifties. Grahame made films with the biggest names in Hollywood, and she won an […]

When a movie comes along that doesn’t behave like any of the thousands of movies you’ve already seen, well, that’s cause for celebration. Such is the case with ‘Downsizing’ from director Alexander Payne.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Opening Wednesday, Dec. 20 A reboot of the 1995 adventure pic starring Robin Williams, the new Jumanji revisits the world of the first story, but with a twist.

THE DISASTER ARTIST Opening Friday, Dec. 8 In 2003, a shady Hollywood creature named Tommy Wiseau wrote, directed, and starred in an independent film called The Room. It’s generally considered to be one of the worst films ever made, in both concept and execution. Still, in the years since its release, The Room has achieved […]

Opening Wednesday, Nov. 22 This pleasant holiday surprise is a heartfelt, clever British import that tells the story of Charles Dickens writing the classic yuletide novella A Christmas Carol. Similar to Goodbye Christopher Robin, the recent drama about A. A. Milne, The Man Who Invented Christmas purports to reveal the details behind a literary phenomenon. […]

Opening Wednesday, Nov. 22 In its prime, Pixar was impossibly reliable, churning out original family films jammed with creativity, wit, and sophisticated emotional intelligence. Think Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, or WALL-E.