Fences

Fences

To cut right to the chase, August Wilson’s Fences, brought to the screen by director and star Denzel Washington from a screenplay written by Wilson before his death in 2005, is one of the best films of the year. The film centers around Troy Maxson (Washington),...
The Help

The Help

The Help, based on the book by Katheryn Stockett, is an unusually good adaption of a very good book. The story, set in the early 60’s, is about a white woman (Skeeter, played by Emma Stone) in Jackson, Mississippi, who decides to write about something that...