Nona (Sulem Calderon) is a young woman with a face that robs her of her youth. It’s not that she looks old­er than her age but her face seems tired. Beneath her free-spir­it­ed appear­ance is a woman cry­ing out for help. There is sad­ness in her eyes. When she glances into the dis­tance, it’s almost as if she’s look­ing back on all the strug­gles she’s…

Steven Spiel­berg is a heck of a good film­mak­er. If you did­n’t know that by now, you have near­ly 50 titles includ­ing “Bridge of Spies” as proof. This is the work of a sea­soned sto­ry­teller in total con­trol, con­fi­dent, and work­ing with an eye that is as sharp today, if not sharp­er, than it was when he first launched his career in Hol­ly­wood over 30 years ago. The direc­tor once… 

-So what’s going on, James? They say you’re fin­ished. ‑And what do you think? ‑I think you’re just get­ting start­ed. Indeed, some­thing won­der­ful has hap­pened here in “Spec­tre.” It feels as if the series is just get­ting start­ed. Daniel Craig has found a direc­tor that under­stands the Bond for­mu­la well enough to bend it, reshape it, and make it his own. That direc­tor is Sam Mendes… 

“Mom­my” is an explo­sive dra­ma from Que­bec native Xavier Dolan who at the age of 25 is mak­ing quite a name for him­self. His lat­est dra­ma exam­ines the tumul­tuous rela­tion­ship between a wid­owed moth­er, Diane (played by Anne Dor­val), and her son Steve (Antoine-Olivi­er Pilon) who has a severe case of ADHD. The atmos­phere in their home is fright­en­ing. The two argue, using strong lan­guage. At one point, a verbal…