If I have to convince you to go see this documentary chronicling the two Aretha Franklin performances at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles that made up her landmark 1972 gospel album Amazing…
As far as animation houses go, the stop-frame animation loyalists at Laika have a perfect record in my book, with a run that includes ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and now their most accessible film to date,…
You don’t have to like one cinematic version of Hellboy over the other. I wildly adore the two previous films directed by Guillermo del Toro. They are inventive, stylish, beautiful creations of fantasy art and have richly drawn characters torn…
Amy Seimetz is best known as a high-caliber actor capable of plumbing the depths of just about every character she’s ever played, including as the guilt-ridden wife and mother Rachel Creed in the new release Pet Sematary (based on the…
There is such haunting truth-telling about the way in which certain fated relationships work in the latest from the great Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke, Ash Is Purest White, that you’re almost forced to look away from the screen to avoid…
This lesser-known curiosity from one of the guiding female voices in independent film in the 1970s and 1980s, Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street, Crossing Delancy), 1977’s Between the Lines is her second feature about co-workers at a Boston alt-weekly newspaper…
The idea behind the German production Styx is so deceptively simple, and therefore, so highly complex and loaded with relevant ideas, that it’s awe-inspiring how it all comes together. The lead character, Rieke (Susanne Wolff, who is beyond impressive here),…
Coming on the heals of American Dharma, director Errol Morris’s documentary profile on political strategist Steve Bannon, it would seems strange that yet another Bannon doc is making its way to theaters. From filmmaker Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry)…
One of the problems the makers of the latest adaptation of author Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (and it’s not really a problem at all) is that most people going to see it already know the basic plot. Either they read…
For those who thought Aquaman was still too dark and scary for their delicate sensibilities, the latest from the DC Comics cinematic universe, Shazam!, should be enough of a safe space for you to enter into without fear of pooping…
Taking a similar approach as 22 July earlier this year (minus the courtroom drama of that film), Hotel Mumbai perilously walks us through the tense and bloody day in 2008 when a well-organized group of terrorists essentially took down India’s largest…
A mix of genres that include science fiction, horror and a deeply personal psychological drama, Starfish, the feature film debut from writer/director A.T. White, is a confident, emotion-driven work that begins as a story of a woman mourning the loss…
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