After the Great World War, Tom Shelbourn returns to his home in Australia and signs up to become the replacement lighthouse keeper on an island 50 miles offshore called Janus. When he falls in love ...

There’s a scene early on in The Light Between Oceans where Alicia Vikander’s character speaks of a mother and father still being referred to as such even after they no longer have a child, and she ...

, now available on Blu-ray from Disney, is a dour romantic drama based on the book of the same name by M. L. Stedman. Director Derek Cianfrance ( ) has crafted a very beautiful film, visually speaking ...

*The Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture presentation of The Light Between Oceans is an epic tale of the healing and everlasting power of love. Based on the novel by M. L. Stedman, The Light Between ...

If you read the book you might find the film a great disappointment. The film, “The Light Between Oceans”, is a maudlin, self-consciously manipulative tear-jerker. But the book, beautifully written by ...

With “Blue Valentine” and “The Place Beyond the Pines,” filmmaker Derek Cianfrance has proved that he has a knack for both intimate romantic fables and sweeping family epics that span decades. In his ...

Writer-director Derek Cianfrance specializes in tastefully staged, evocatively lit suffering. His breakthrough film, 2010's Blue Valentine, tracks a young couple (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) ...

Writer Joseph Nobile has sued Disney, DreamWorks, its successor companies, as well as author Margot Louise Watts and her publisher Simon & Schuster, claiming last year’s “The Light Between Oceans,” a ...