I’ll give the makers of Eiffel credit for their honesty in an opening title card that proclaims the film is “freely inspired by a true story.” In director Martin Bourbolon’s […]
In all likelihood, you haven’t seen any of director/co-writer and prolific action filmmaker Jesse V. Johnson’s movies. But with a surprisingly solid cast, his latest work, White Elephant, might change […]
I have to believe two things after watching the new nuclear terrorist threat thriller Interceptor. One is that our first line of defense against nuclear missile launches from Russia have […]
What little I knew about New York’s Fire Island (which runs parallel to the south shore of Long Island) before seeing director Andrew (Driveways, Spa Night) Ahn’s new film of […]
Having not yet read any opinions on the latest David Cronenberg treatise on the future of the body, sex, art, technology, and the ways in which the world will eventually […]
Less a feature film and more of an expanded episode of the television series (not a criticism, just an observation), The Bob’s Burgers Movie doesn’t grow to fit the big […]
The hook of There Are No Saints, the new film from director Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, is that he’s working from what is apparently an old screenplay by the great Paul […]
In the 2008 documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, director Stefan Forbes painted a portrait of a political player whom he considered a force against all things good and […]
I recently had a wise person tell me that nostalgia is for those who are afraid to face the present, and I tend to agree with that. By that token, […]
Chicago’s only all-documentary film festival, Doc10, has truly established itself over the last seven years as one of the top-tier non-fiction festivals in the nation. Taking place this year primarily […]
If you had told me over a decade ago that a prim and polished television drama from PBS set within the gilded walls of a great British estate during the […]
A film like Men, the latest from writer/director Alex Garland (Annihilation, Ex Machina), is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. I’m not even entirely sure it’s my cup […]