Cinematographers Ellen Kuras and Rachel Morrison are featured in this week's column. I also review an entertaining and thoughtful new biography for cinema fans, "The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick".
Former assassin John Wick steps back into the life he left behind for vengeance against those who wronged him. Try to find these movie mistakes while watching "John Wick".
The evil Queen Ravenna has kept Snow White locked up in the castle her entire childhood. A chance escape leads her into the Dark Forest. The Huntsman, once assigned to track her down, becomes her protector and together they join forces to defeat the evil queen in this adult fairytale twist.
Patton Oswalt's newest stand-up special comes to us directly from the maw of Netflix itself, and it gives us Patton talking about his life, his daughter, horrible clowns, and, if he wasn't meta enough, his worst stand-up set.
Detective Laura Diamond combines single motherhood with her work as a homicide cop, and it doesn’t help that her almost ex-husband is now her boss. Debra Messing stars in a police procedural series that brings comedy and mystery together, accompanied by murder.
Do you remember the first time that you went to a drive-in? You were probably a child and pretty amazed by the fact that you could sit outside and watch a movie. Drive-ins are a piece of our past experiences, and a great one to share with our children.
