On the surface, **“Whiplash”** and **“Nightcrawler,”** two of the year’s best and most thrilling movies, don’t have anything in common. One is about a jazz drummer (**Miles Teller**) at the most prestigious music school in the country and the other is about a weirdo (**Jake ...

The opening scene of **“The Theory of Everything”** tells you all you need to know about the film. Two young Cambridge students, Stephen and Jane, are at a gathering and they see each other from across the room. They both ask the person they are with about the other and exchange glances. ...

The first thing I thought coming out of **“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1”** is that it isn’t much of a movie. I don’t mean that the production isn’t professional or that it doesn’t look like a movie — it just doesn't feel like one. It's the worst recent example of ...

“The idea that the world can become a sensible place is ridiculous,” said **John Cleese** during a 90-minute conversation onstage at The Midland Theatre on Wednesday evening. Coming from Cleese, a founding member of British sketch comedy troupe Monty Python, this statement could be taken ...

The term “film noir” often conjures up black-and-white images of boozy detectives pointing their guns and beautiful femme fatales smoking cigarettes in the shadows. But the films in this uniquely American genre are more than that, and they hold up especially well today. [Film Noir ...

**Christopher Nolan**, the filmmaker most often credited with making modern blockbuster films that tackle big themes and require grown-up thought (“The Dark Knight,” “Inception”), reaches for his inner Spielberg with “Interstellar.” What the writer/director achieves is a sci-fi ...