Go, Berry, for taking your muscular, agile self where Antoine Fuqua, 55, once took Denzel Washington, 66, and for showing audiences the magnitude of your range. When the 6-year-old son Jackie abandoned as an infant suddenly shows up, mute and damaged, it puts her at a crossroads: Can she regain her dignity and find her inner dragon mom? You betcha - and it will all end in one thrilling flyweight title fight, with a little help from Jackie’s gay trainer, Buddhakan (striking Sheila Atim).
The fighter’s spectacular flameout in the cage left the Newark, New Jersey, native in a spiral of booze, abuse and bad choices. In a cross between Million Dollar Baby and Raging Bull, she stars as hard-drinking MMA vet Jackie Justice. Halle Berry, 55, doesn’t play nice in her gritty feature directorial debut. Watch it: The Power of the Dog, on Netflix Campion, who shockingly hasn’t made a feature since 2009’s Bright Star, crafts a compelling tale that connects viscerally with the audience and sticks its devastating landing. She triangulates their relationship, moving in with her effete son, Peter (a sensational Kodi Smit-McPhee), and threatening Phil’s fierce frontier facade. His secrets erupt when Phil’s temperate brother George (rock-solid Jesse Plemons) weds the widow Rose Gordon (a finely wrought Kirsten Dunst). Beneath his bullying hide, he has repressed his authentic, vulnerable self. Phil, menacingly played by Benedict Cumberbatch, rangy of build and cunning of eye, is a charismatic and cutting alpha dog. The bachelor Burbank brothers have managed the family ranch for 25 years. Set at the volatile crossroads of horse culture and the horseless carriage in 1925, change is in the air. Who’s the big dog on the Montana prairie? That’s the sly question propelling Jane Campion’s glorious, sweeping and intimate Oscar-bound Western.
Watch it: Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, in limited screenings and on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Redbox, Vuduĭon’t Miss This: Beatles Fans, Rejoice: New Documentary and Album Set the 'Get Back' Record Straight “He had an orchestra in his head.” You wish the scenes of Wilson creating were longer, but even the bits are inspiring. “George Martin did for the Beatles, but Brian did it himself,” says Elton. The best scenes are musical: Wilson in the studio in the ’60s and today, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, and Don Was explicating “God Only Knows” and surf music. You feel the pain as he plaintively sings, “Gotta keep those good vibrations,” and thrill to hear him say he plans a rock ’n’ roll covers album. This desultory documentary gives you a sense of his emotional torment, still hearing voices echoing his father’s cruelty. haunts, Rolling Stone’s Jason Fine gently coaxes a few stories out of the reticent genius, some interesting. Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, UnratedĪs they tour Brian Wilson’s old L.A.
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