Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Mulan

No Mushu, no songs, no problem. It’s an empowering action spectacle  that, although it stumbles out of the gate, is held aloft by its progressive depiction of life in the barracks, lush pageantry and committed actors who who hit more than they miss. Is it worth...

Corpus Christi

How does a brooding 20-year-old, just released from juvie, convince the residents of a remote Polish village he’s a Catholic priest? By marching to the beat of his own drum, with the expected consequences. Anchored by a galvanizing central performance, this Polish...

Cats

The claws are out for this much-ballyhooed screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running musical about the secret lives of London cats, but director Tom Hooper ends up being an agreeable, if not quite purr-fect, choice to highlight the material’s playfully...