Arthur Miller movies include adaptations of All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge. One of the most influential 20th-century American playwrights, Miller…
Boyhood movie with Ellar Coltrane. ‘Boyhood’ movie: Richard Linklater has created ‘conceptually brilliant new film’ Director Richard Linklater once said, “The most unique property of cinema is how it lets…
Mildred Pierce 1945 movie: Best Actress Oscar winner Joan Crawford is terrific as a devoted mother to psychopathic daughter Ann Blyth in Michael Curtiz’s film noir + melodrama mix.
Turner Classic Movies: Dysfunctional-Family-Oriented Christmas Films + Katharine Hepburn Double Dose
Turner Classic Movies presents Katharine Hepburn in Little Women 1933: Up to the Christmas Day viewer to decide whether George Cukor’s Best Picture Academy Award nominee is immensely moving or…
Where the Wild Things Are: “Family movies” at the box office. Oct. 18 update: Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are easily defeated its competition at the North American box…
Tokyo Sonata movie (2008): Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s capably acted family drama exposes the (perhaps not so) gradual + seemingly inexorable unraveling of Japan’s traditional social fabric.
Fanny and Alexander movie (1982) vs. TV miniseries (1983): Ingmar Bergman’s sumptuous big-screen swan song is even more engrossing in its longer form.
The Door in the Floor movie (2004) review: Kim Basinger delivers a pitch-perfect performance in Tod Williams’ uneven psychological drama. Also in the cast: Jeff Bridges and Jon Foster.
Sundance movies: Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel in The Romantics. As usual, the upcoming Sundance Film Festival will screen numerous world premieres; one of them is writer-director Galt Niederhoffer’s The…
Amu movie (2005) review: The connection between an adoption and the bloody anti-Sikh Delhi riots of 1984 forms the personal and political core of Shonali Bose’s family drama.