Any doubt as to the authorship of the new western Brimstone is cleared up in the opening title card, which proclaims “Koolhoven’s Brimstone.” Koolhoven is the Dutch writer/director Martin Koolhoven, who ensured that level of “name...

It’s easy to understand why studios repeatedly said “no thank you” to Arrival, an adaptation of Ted Chiang’s 1998 short fiction piece Story of Your Life. It’s a medium budgeted non-tentpole sci-fi with a female lead, based on cere...