Review: For Summer Fun at the Movies, Mamma Mia! Sequel is a Sure Thing
Let’s get this out of the way up front: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, like its predecessor (and smash hit, currently sitting at $144M worldwide gross), is silly from start […]
Interview: Blindspotting Creative Duo On Oakland, Finding a Director and the Ten Years to the Big Screen
Musicians, poets, actors, and general creative types Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal have been working on-and-off on the screenplay for Blindspotting for somewhere around 10 years—long before Diggs got involved […]
Review: Restored Print of Wickedly Fun The Murderer Lives at Number 21 Comes to Chicago
In 1942, after a few years of working together with directing partner Karl Hartl, Henri-Georges Clouzot (Wages of Fear, Diabolique) broke out with his first solo effort with the old-school […]
Review: Two Journalists Pursue Truth Against the Odds in Rob Reiner’s Shock & Awe
It’s safe to say that after 20-plus years of subpar filmmaking, it would have been easy to write off director Rob Reiner as having his best works (This Is Spinal […]
Review: You’ll Likely Rethink Your Meals After Impactful Food Doc Eating Animals
While there have certainly been previous documentaries about the various foods we consume in mass quantities as Americans, Eating Animals is perhaps the most comprehensive on the subject of factory […]
Review: The Conflicts and Intrigue of Fashion in Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
Art house theaters of late seem to be swarming with fashion documentaries, but none of them are about someone quite as interesting as Vivienne Westwood, the woman who helped create […]
Review: Monsters Return in Hotel Transylvania 3, and It’s Good for A Giggle
The latest chapter in the apparently popular Hotel Transylvania series, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, begins as many film sequels do these days—with a flashback. In a franchise built on good […]
Review: Dwayne Johnson is Basically a Superhero in Entertaining Skyscraper
The premise of Dwayne Johnson’s latest disaster-based action movie is certainly intriguing: Under what circumstances would a sane man run into a burning building if he wasn’t an actual firefighter? […]
Interview: How Boots Riley Fit All His Best Ideas into Sorry to Bother You
As much as many have written stories about how Sorry To Bother You writer/director Boots Riley “hacked” the Hollywood system to get his debut film made, the truth is he […]
Review: With Plenty of Humanity and Mystery, Three Identical Strangers May Be the Best Documentary of 2018
For a brief time in 1980, the three most talked about people in New York City (and the country) were Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland, and David Kellman. They were all […]
Review: Despite Strong Cast, The House Of Tomorrow Stands on Shaky Foundation
Sometimes it’s just fun to watch a bevy of worthy actors take on a simple, so-so screenplay just to see what they can do with it. Based on a novel […]
Review: Love, Cecil Chronicles Hollywood Success and a Search for Identity
Documentary filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland has made two films—Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, about the legendary fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar who also happens to be her grandmother-in-law; […]