Review: Adam Sandler’s Genuine Love of Basketball Shines Through in Hustle
Adam Sandler is not above surprising us every so often. He did it not too long ago in the hyper-real…
Interview: Fire Island Filmmakers on Inspiration from Austen, Casting Comedy Legend Margaret Cho and the Chance for a Trip Back to the Island
On a broader scale, director Andrew Ahn’s new comedy Fire Island is about a group of multicultural gay men who…
Review: Low-Grade and Truly Indie, Watcher Is Sharp and Highly Effective
One of the highlights of last year’s horror anthology V/H/S/94 was director Chloe Okuno’s creature-feature segment “Storm Drain.” Now making her feature-length…
Review: Eiffel Reimagines Building Paris’s Iconic Landmark as an Act of Grand Romance
I’ll give the makers of Eiffel credit for their honesty in an opening title card that proclaims the film is…
Review: White Elephant Is Not a Good Movie, But a Stacked Cast Makes it Watchable
In all likelihood, you haven’t seen any of director/co-writer and prolific action filmmaker Jesse V. Johnson’s movies. But with a…
Review: Passable Action Scenes and Mild Politics Make Interceptor Less than a Must-Watch
I have to believe two things after watching the new nuclear terrorist threat thriller Interceptor. One is that our first…
Review: An Updated Take on Austen, Fire Island Takes on Contemporary Romance, Gay Culture and Coming-of-Age
What little I knew about New York’s Fire Island (which runs parallel to the south shore of Long Island) before…
Review: Filmmaker David Cronenberg Revisits Favorite Themes in Weird yet Rich Crimes of the Future
Having not yet read any opinions on the latest David Cronenberg treatise on the future of the body, sex, art,…
Review: The Bob’s Burgers Movie Is More of What Fans of the Show Already Appreciate
Less a feature film and more of an expanded episode of the television series (not a criticism, just an observation),…
Review: A Styleless There Are No Saints Never Gets Beyond Crime Drama Tropes
The hook of There Are No Saints, the new film from director Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, is that he’s working from…
Interview: Filmmaker Stefan Forbes on Toxic Masculinity, Hostage Negotiations and Finding the Story in Hold Your Fire
In the 2008 documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, director Stefan Forbes painted a portrait of a political player…
Review: Top Gun: Maverick Features Impressive Flight Scenes But More Nostalgia Than Novelty
I recently had a wise person tell me that nostalgia is for those who are afraid to face the present,…
