In case you were wondering, 1992 isn’t the only film being released this week that is something of a bait and switch—a film that starts out as a family drama […]
Directed by Adam MacDonald (Backcountry), from a screenplay by Enuka Okuma, the Canadian production Out Come the Wolves takes a fairly straightforward approach to telling a story about retired hunter […]
It didn’t take longer than about five minutes for me to figure out exactly what type of biopic Reagan was going to be. Obviously, it’s a childhood-to-death tracing of the […]
While this new Casey Affleck-starring work, Slingshot, is set up like a science-fiction story, in reality it’s a tense acting exercise couched in a psychological thriller. The whole thing is […]
The forces behind the gentrification of Miami’s Little Haiti community in Monica Sorelle’s feature debut Mountains are invisible and unstoppable. They go beyond the For Sale signs with the headshot […]
Much like Terence Malick’s return to feature filmmaking after a 28-year hiatus with 1998’s The Thin Red Line, the return of celebrated Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice to our big screens […]
When we first meet small town cop Terry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he’s telling a joke so tasteless and ill-advised for the workplace that we know exactly who this guy is and […]
For reasons that don’t quite make sense even to me, the prospect of actor Zoë Kravitz directing/co-writing a film (with E.T. Feigenbaum) has filled me with excitement since I heard […]
As much as I tend to cringe at the idea of most film remakes, for some reason, the thought of legendary Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo (Face/Off, Broken Arrow, Hard […]
From the highly entertaining and inventive horror filmmakers The Adams Family (last year’s Where The Devil Roams, and 2021’s Hellbender) comes their take on and love letter to classic sci-fi-driven […]
Based on the best-selling 2013 novel by Edward Kelsey Moore (adapted by Cee Marcellus, which is actually a pen name for Gina Prince-Bythewood, with revisions by director Tina Mabry), The […]
Plenty of movies are meant to be an escape, a fleeting couple hours’ entertainment featuring superheroes or meet-cutes or triumphant protagonist’s journeys. In the world of documentaries, escapism is hard […]