Steering away from the drunken silliness she wrangled out of her last directing effort, Wine Country, Amy Poehler now moves into the more serious realm of high school with Moxie, a work […]
Sometimes, a film being magical and beautiful goes a long way with me. But when it decides to throw in a great deal of thrilling action, really fun voice talents and a […]
I’ve been fortunate enough over the years to have interviewed Julie Delpy two times prior to last week, and all three times were in promotion of films she wrote, directed and in […]
Sometimes, it’s absolutely possible to make too much movie for one subject matter. The gold standard for films about the scope and damage of the drug trade has always been Steven Soderbergh’s […]
Julie Delpy is one of those rare talents who sparks internal debates about whether she’s a better actor or a better writer/director. I’m guessing most people would say actor, but it’s a […]
Of course it’s too early in the career of Billie Eilish to devote two hours and 20 minutes to a documentary to her accomplishments. She’s only in the midst of the first […]
It’s especially ambitious of the Russo Brothers (Anthony and Joe, who made the last two Captain America and Avengers movies) to follow up literally the biggest movies ever made with a film […]
From the writer/director of the supremely strong and naturalistic First Girl I Loved, Kerem Sanga, comes another work about a romance that seems fated not to work, with far more dire consequences […]
Another offering this week that features shitty people doing shitty things to less fortunate people is writer/director J Blakeson’s I Care A Lot, in which Rosamund Pike plays professional, court-appointed guardian Marla […]
The latest from writer/director John Swab (Run with the Hunted), Body Brokers opens with a statement about the Affordable Care Act made in the law that health insurance companies must cover drug […]
There are several films out this week about people who made a lot of money finding loopholes (usually legal, but not always) in the system and exploiting them (see also: Body Brokers […]
Although it has been a while since I’ve revisited the 1945 David Lean adaptation of Noël Coward’s play Blithe Spirit, I’ve always counted it as one of my favorite early works by […]
