As perfect a film as has ever been made, the original 1976 “Rocky” has become part of the pop culture unconscious, holding its spot

Born in Elgin, Illinois, Shales worked as an editor at The Washington Examiner before getting hired as a writer for The Washington Post‘s

Leonie Benesch (of “The Crown”) plays Carla Nowak, a Polish emigre teaching math and physical education. She’s an idealist about education and the

Nobody speaks a full word of written dialogue. Characters grunt when they crash against a wall, get punched in the gut, or are struck by a

The film takes an “I am Spartacus” approach to the text, casting an assortment of trans and nonbinary performers as a gallery of incarnations

“Mami Wata” is populated by men and women who dress and act as if they’re still in a previous century, resisting modernity. The

Cousins’ narration gets a bit MFA fiction workshop at certain points, but that’s a feature of his work, not a bug (in another life, he

That last film is by far the most interesting of the ones that Penn gives us in this grab-bag of a movie. And

Directed by Jeff Celentano from a script by the late Scott Marshall Smith (“Men of Honor”) and Angelo Pizzo (who wrote the classics “Rudy” and “Hoosiers“), “The

Devine’s character, Owen Browning, is a bank manager, despite being so cloddish and lacking in judgment or impulse control that it’s hard to imagine