Review: The Seagull Lacks Passion, Despite a Strong Cast
The first of two new films starring Saoirse Ronan coming out this month (On Chesil Beach arrives next week in Chicago), this adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull doesn’t add […]
The first of two new films starring Saoirse Ronan coming out this month (On Chesil Beach arrives next week in Chicago), this adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull doesn’t add […]
This documentary about the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas and the first from below the equator, gives a great deal of insight into Pope Francis, who insists […]
I loathed this movie—every scene, every joke, every performance, every idea. And the shame of it is, I could envision a film in which the template of a book club […]
Even the plot summary for Deadpool 2 is amusing: “Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a […]
I’ve a confession to make as I attempt to review Bad Samaritan—I love David Tennant. I’m a hard core Whovian and David Tennant is “my” Doctor. In fact, I enjoyed […]
On the heels of a well-deserved Oscar win (Best Foreign Language Film for last year’s A Fantastic Woman), Sebastián Lelio returns to theaters this week with Disobedience, a story of love and loss […]
To discuss Tully, the new collaboration between screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman (the two made Juno and Young Adult previously) is to take away a little bit of […]
While many news-oriented documentaries attempt to maintain a certain level of professional journalistic distance from their subjects, director Travis Wilkerson (An Injury To One) has taken a much different approach […]
Grace Jones is an icon in so many fields, it’s hard to keep track. She’s had success as a model, actress, singer, performance artist, fashion icon and businesswoman, and it […]
For a few years now, I’ve been trying to find a common theme in the works of writer/director Miguel Arteta, and I think it comes down to capturing rebellious spirits […]
The story behind the making of writer/director Chloé Zhao’s second feature, The Rider, is almost as intriguing as the finished film. While doing research for her previous feature, 2015’s Songs […]
Part wish fulfillment, part self-fulfilling prophecy, part playing with your expansive action-figure collection in endless combinations, Avengers: Infinity War—the culminating chapter (well, the first of two, with Avengers 4 arriving […]