The famous German playwright Bertolt Brecht fled his home country when Hitler came to power, and in 1942 at the invitation of renowned film director Fritz Lang, co-scripted the only screenplay he ever wrote for Hollywood. The result is **“Hangmen Also Die,”** a stirring piece of ...

In 2010, British comedians **Steve Coogan** and **Rob Brydon** had an unexpected indie hit on their hands with “The Trip,” a road-trip comedy in which the actors played heightened versions of themselves — like Larry David in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” albeit not as extreme. **“The ...

Shades of sadness and defeat simmer just below the surface of **Philip Seymour Hoffman**’s subtle performance in **“A Most Wanted Man,”** opening today at [Liberty Hall][1]. Knowing the late actor’s personal troubles while he was filming the spy thriller, it’s hard not to wonder how ...

At no other time in the last hundred years have there been more movies available to the general public as there are right now. Thanks to streaming video, hundreds of thousands of movies from the dawn of film to today can be accessed and played back on all kinds of HD-ready devices. So why is ...

Now playing at Liberty Hall, **“Boyhood”** is the challenging new movie from writer/director **Richard Linklater**, and it follows 12 years of the life of a boy named Mason, who is first seen at age 6. **Ellar Coltrane**, who plays Mason, is the centerpiece of this ensemble movie, but the ...

Nothing kills a movie that’s coveted a slow, methodical buildup more than a heavy dose of convenient plotting and characters that over-explain the film’s central idea. Thanks very much, **Michael Pitt**, but I already knew that your new sci-fi inflected drama **“I Origins”** was ...