As filmmakers and creatives look to their own for subject matter, there are ultimately two options to chronicle the lives and inner dialogues of notable authors, musicians, artists and others: […]
Sometimes, it comes down to a performance. In the case of the new Amy Winehouse docudrama Back To Black, from director Sam Taylor-Johnson (Fifty Shades of Gray, Nowhere Boy), that […]
When you line up an army of famous friends to do character voices and even manage to get Ryan Reynolds to star as the impish ringleader of a group of […]
Certainly one of the most talked about films out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, writer/director Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow (their follow-up to the indie hit We’re […]
Following his 2021 Oscar-winning Drive My Car, writer/director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (whose also excellent Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy was released stateside the same year) takes a more oblique but no less potent and […]
Under its super-charged surface story of an obsessed young fan of a TV show, I Saw the TV Glow has a great deal going on, including the story of an identity transformation […]
For women in Hollywood, aging is not the easiest thing to do. Often, the mere act of passing time and surviving is enough to tank a woman’s career, particularly when […]
Humor is subjective; it always has been. It baffles me endlessly when anyone tries to argue that a film that some people find funny isn’t funny. Others found it funny, […]
Quite often, when a film features such a completely stacked cast of comedic talent, it’s almost guaranteed to be terrible. Sure, some of the actors will get out a doozy […]
In this hit-you-over-the-head love letter to the stunt community of Hollywood, former stunt man, stunt coordinator and now director David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, Bullet Train, Hobbs & Shaw) […]
Collaboraction Theatre, which makes social change its mission, has created a powerful film based on the 1955 Mississippi murder of Chicago’s Emmett Till and the subsequent trial of two men […]
Being on the receiving end of a crash course on the paintings of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is to understand that before photo-heavy fashion magazines and influencers evaluating the designers […]