Inside Llewyn Davis

The beating heart of an artist in a tailspin fuels the Coen Brothers lovely little period picture, Inside Llewyn Davis, a beautifully rendered portrait of a struggling folk guitarist, played in a star-making performance by Oscar Isaac, circa 1961 Greenwich Village. In a season…

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Saving Mr. Banks

Emma Thompson gives a performance for the ages in Saving Mr. Banks, the new picture chronicling Walt Disney’s pursuit of humorless Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers, who in 1961 traveled from London to Hollywood to entertain signing away the film rights to her deeply…

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Philomena

You’d have to be a stone to be unaffected by Stephen Frears’ Philomena, the true story of sixty-something Irish woman who embarks on an unexpected odyssey to find the son taken from her by Catholic nuns some fifty years earlier. It’s a dramatic character…

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12 Years a Slave

It’s certain that some will find Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, the incredible true story of a free African-American musician from New York kidnapped and sold into slavery in the south circa 1841, too unflinching in its depiction of barbarism. But know this…

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