Another busy weekend at the movies is upon us, with three new wide releases and a handful of prestige Oscar hopefuls making their nationwide expansions. Opening in the highest number of theatres is 12 Strong, a war drama about the U.S. “horse soldiers” sent to fight in Afghanistan immediately following ...

Hollywood is often nothing more than an assembly line that produces the same story again and again for mass audiences who are drawn to the comfort of familiarity. Invariably, any recent year’s top-grossing films will be composed mostly of sequels and comic-book adaptations. This year alone has already seen a ...