Review: An Unlikely Friendship Unfolds in Carefully Crafted The Painter and The Thief
As film premises go, the one for The Painter and the Thief is a doozy: an artist seeks out and befriends the man who stole her paintings. If it weren’t a […]
Review: Discover Legendary Chef Diana Kennedy’s Life and Influence in Nothing Fancy
I know very little about the great chefs or restaurants, but that never seems to stand in the way of my fully enjoying great documentaries about them both, including Diana […]
Review: The Lovebirds Are Anything But In This Slight Rom-Com
Up until recently, most of the big-ticket films scheduled to be released in theaters that have been sidetracked to some form of streaming of VOD platform have been family-friendly works. […]
Review: Food, Humor and Good Fun Concludes Poignantly in The Trip to Greece
One of my absolute, all-time favorite film series doesn’t feature any special effects or crazy stunts. What the The Trip movies do feature are two of the most engaging and […]
Review: Time Warp‘s Second Installation Highlights Horror and Sci-Fi Classics
Following last month’s first in a three-part documentary series on the history of some of the most famous cult films in history, Time Warp, Vol. 2–Horror and Sci-Fi is another […]
Review: Animated, Direct-to-VOD Scoob! Is Somehow Too Much and Not Enough
If it’s possible for a film to be both too much and not enough, then that’s probably the best way to describe Scoob!, the latest studio feature film that was […]
Review: Alice Proves a Promising if Over-Polished Debut Feature Film
Writer/director Josephine Mackerras makes her feature film debut with Alice, the story of a woman who discovers her husband’s obsession with a high-end escort service only to be drawn into the […]
Review: Slight Fourteen Considers Friendship Over the Years
Something about Fourteen, a drama about the unique connection between close friends over time, feels downright retro. It’s not a period piece, but it’s as if it was made in another […]
Review: Up From the Streets is New Orleans’ Massive Music History in One Heartfelt Documentary
Subtitled New Orleans: The City of Music, Up From the Streets is a documentary from Michael Murphy (Make It Funky!) that attempts nothing short of giving a primer on the entire […]
Review: Castle in the Ground Explores Lives Intertwined in the Early Days of the Opioid Crisis
One of the many films slated for this year’s cancelled SXSW Film Festival (although the film had its official premiere at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival) was writer/director Joey Klein’s […]
Review: Capone Chronicles the Final Messy Year of Chicago’s Most Infamous Gangster
Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, I used to have a day job that required me to travel to various locations around the world, and no matter where I […]
Review: Beanie Feldstein Shines in Coming Of Age Adventures of How to Build a Girl
For some reason, the world at large has yet to realize what a stunning talent Beanie Feldstein truly is; the 26 year old (and Jonah Hill’s younger sister) can sing, […]