Harrowing stories from around the world define this year’s five nominees, though hope and inspiration shine through in the program’s best works.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
Harrowing stories from around the world define this year’s five nominees, though hope and inspiration shine through in the program’s best works.
Movies & Meaning founder Gareth Higgins reflects on the film’s unifying power. See it Feb. 21 at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts.
Stop-motion works comprise over half of this year’s nominees, but will one of the two computer-animated finalists take home the Academy Award?
From “A Sister” to “Brotherhood” and a glimpse through “The Neighbors’ Window,” this shorts program at the Grail Moviehouse has a lot to recommend it.
A series of Oscar-caliber performances in supporting roles boost this tear-jerker about the effort to get a Medal of Honor for an airman who died heroically in Vietnam.
A baffling, full-stop ending mars this otherwise promising Henry James adaptation.
With help from Tim Roth and Clive Owen, François Girard (The Red Violin) builds on his reputation as a maestro of musical mysteries.
The shockingly dull combination of Nicolas Cage, Richard Stanley, and H.P. Lovecraft is an almost complete failure.
Fun, funny, and visually rich, the latest Dr. Dolittle is nowhere near the disaster many critics claim it to be.
Michael Bay’s hyperbolic style is sorely missed in the series’ third installment — as is Will Smith’s charisma.
The Asheville Movie Guys slog their way through Terrence Malick’s fact-based endurance test.
Despite or even because of the numerous and even shameful omissions, the Oscar nominations accurately reflect an exceptional year of film.
Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne earn big laughs despite a flimsy, predictable story.
Sam Mendes’ WWI epic puts a fresh, exciting spin on an oft-tired genre.
The latest “Alien” rip-off has more in common with the “47 Meters Down” series than Ellen Ripley.
If any horror film characters deserve to die gruesome deaths, it’s these idiots.
With a somnolent Will Smith voicing an especially boring bird, and a tired supervillain plot line, there’s not much here to recommend.
The star-studded dramatization of Roger Ailes’ downfall merely leaves a shallow mark.
The fact-based legal drama is unfortunately timely, but potentially unifying.
