Piers Marchant

Oct 19, 2023 | arkansasonline.com | Piers Marchant

The Killers: William “King” Hale (Robert De Niro) and his nephew Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) wage a murder campaign against wealthy members of the Osage tribe in Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s nonfiction bestseller “Killers of the Flower Moon.”In 30 years as a movie star, Leonardo DiCaprio has played everyone including a mentally challenged man-child, Romeo, historic figures like Howard Hughes... Print Headline: Long, slow and devastatingSponsor Content

Oct 12, 2023 | arkansasonline.com | Piers Marchant

Babes, don’t threaten me with a good time: Taylor Swift shows one of the many guises she assumes in the concert film “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.”In the social media era, content easily gives way to reach: You might be a celebrity influencer with absolutely nothing of value to... Print Headline: Rise of a SwiftieSponsor Content

Oct 5, 2023 | arkansasonline.com | Piers Marchant

The devil, as they say, is in the details, or in the case of David Gordon Green's "Exorcist" extension, the lack thereof: The film's reasonably creepy first act laboriously sets up what might have been something good and jarring, only for the script to become a mishmash of barely considered ideas that mostly end up as demonic-hued piffle.

Aug 24, 2023 | arkansasonline.com | Piers Marchant

I am become death: Irish actor Cillian Murphy portrays a conflicted J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s epic biographical thriller “Oppenheimer.”In Christopher Nolan's sprawling bio-pic of the American physicist J. Print Headline: ‘Oppenheimer’ contains multitudesSponsor Content

Aug 17, 2023 | arkansasonline.com | Piers Marchant

After being told his entire life -- and many, many additional times in the first third of the movie -- that video game sim-racing isn't at all the same as the real deal, the first thing "Gran Turismo" ubergamer Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe) tells himself when he gets behind the wheel of a real racing car, about to compete for a spot on an actual, in real life, racing team, is just the opposite: "It's just a game," he says to himself, like a mantra.