Review: Seek Out the Poignant, Touching Who We Are Now
From writer-director Matthew Newton (From Nowhere) comes a story of people who struggle to keep at bay the things that have gotten them into trouble in the past. Who We […]
Review: The Gospel According to André Preaches Fashion, Politics and Self-Expression
I believe I was first made aware of fashion journalism and all-around expert André Leon Talley when I saw the Vogue magazine documentary The September Issue. It was clear then […]
Review: Insights into Creativity, Process and Loyalty in Filmworker
Documentarian Tony Zierra has been fascinated with those who have been so close to fame, they could almost taste it. His first doc, 2001’s acclaimed Carving Out Our Name, profiled […]
Review: Shailene Woodley Keeps Adrift From Going Too Far Off Course
Based on the true-life story of Tami Oldham (played here by Shailene Woodley), Adrift re-creates what happened to her and her boyfriend Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) after the high-end sailboat […]
Review: Violent Sci-Fi Thriller Upgrade Is One Hell of a Ride
In something of a throwback to the more violent science-fiction outings of filmmakers like Paul Verhoeven and David Cronenberg, writer/director Leigh Whannell (the writer/co-creator of the Saw and Insidious franchises, […]
Interview: Leigh Whannell, Director of Sci-Fi Action Film Upgrade
The Australian-born Leigh Whannell is one of the most successful writers of horror/genre films currently working. He wrote the first three Saw films, all four Insidious movies (he even directed the third […]
Review: That Summer Is a Well-Edited Prequel to Grey Gardens
Although technically a prequel of sorts to the Maysles brothers’ landmark documentary Grey Gardens—about Jackie Kennedy’s eccentric, stuck-in-a-dream-world family members Big Edie and Little Edie Beale—That Summer feels more a like […]
Review: The Guardians, A Smoldering Drama About Life in Wartime
It’s rare that a wartime-set film focuses primarily on the struggles of those left back home, but in The Guardians, the latest work from director Xavier Beauvois (Of Gods and […]
Review: Saoirse Ronan Revisits Ian McEwan’s Lush, Repressed World in On Chesil Beach
Saoirse Ronan arrived in Joe Wright’s 2007 adaptation of Ian McEwan’s heartbreaking novel Atonement. Now, she returns a decade later to a McEwan work in On Chesil Beach, adapted for the screen […]
Review: Paul Schrader’s First Reformed Is Combustible, Captivating
I’ve been watching a lot of movies for a long time, and yet I’d be the first to admit I have a lot to learn about the movies. I went […]
Review: Solo Fits Comfortably into an Ever-Expanding Star Wars Universe
The key to watching any of these “Star Wars Stories”—Rogue One a couple years ago, and now Solo, the tale about how Han Solo started on his journey to become […]
Review: Even with Rough Edges, Beauty and the Dogs Is Raw and Timely
I can’t honestly say that I’ve ever seen a film from Tunisia, but Beauty and the Dogs, the latest from up-and-coming director Kaouther Ben Hania (Le challat de tunis) is […]