Review: Chronicling Skateboarder Tony Hawk’s Epic Career, Until the Wheels Fall Off Sticks the Landing
Knowing a bit of the of journey of supreme professional skateboarder Tony Hawk would probably go a long way toward…
Review: Gagarine Channels Youthful Angst with Heartfelt, Insightful Filmmaking
Playing out like a faded photograph of a bygone era on the periphery of Paris, Gagarine comes courtesy of first-time…
Review: Much-Delayed Morbius Misses the Chance to Launch a Truly Compelling Comic Book Anti-Hero
At this point, I think it’s fair to say that any comic book character that has even the most remote…
Review: The Automat Serves Up Morsels of History, Memories of Bygone America
File this one under the category: Documentaries I Didn’t Know I Needed Until I Watched It. From first-time filmmaker Lisa…
Review: Chris Pine Gets Intense as a Mercenary Trying to Solve a Mystery in The Contractor
Taking a crack at a bare-bones action-thriller B-movie, Chris Pine (Star Trek, Wonder Woman) plays Special Forces Sgt. James Harper…
Review: Nostalgia, Ambition and Outer Space Loom Large in Richard Linklater’s Endearing Apollo 10½
Using the same animation style (and lead animator Tommy Pallotta) he used in Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, writer/director…
Review: Overstuffed and Unfunny, The Bubble Fails to Make a Pandemic Production Entertaining
Apparently writer/director Judd Apatow and co-writer Pam Brady (Hot Rod, Hamlet 2, Team America) see the health-related restrictions put on…
Review: A Visual Feast, Everything Everywhere All At Once Is Confounding, Compelling and One of the Year’s Best
There are times when a film might attempt to pack too much movie into a single work, and I can…
Review: Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum Can’t Save a Half-Baked, Poorly Scripted The Lost City
In a setup and general vibe that reminded me of films like Romancing the Stone, The Lost City tells the…
Review: 7 Days Charmingly Brings Two People Together During the Pandemic’s Early Days of Keeping Us Apart
An early candidate for the most adorable film of the year, the festival favorite 7 Days recently won the Independent…
Review: Harrowing Rescue Story Infinite Storm Offers Brutal but Authentic Character Study
On the heels of what was effectively a one-woman show in the school shooting drama The Desperate Hour, star Naomi…
Interview: Chicago Native Graham Moore on the Precision of The Outfit, the Art of the Reveal and Setting the Film in 1950s Chicago
When last we met Chicago native Graham Moore, he was picking up an Oscar for his first produced screenplay, 2014’s…
