The premise of Dwayne Johnson’s latest disaster-based action movie is certainly intriguing: Under what circumstances would a sane man run into a burning building if he wasn’t an actual firefighter? […]
For a brief time in 1980, the three most talked about people in New York City (and the country) were Bobby Shafran, Eddy Galland, and David Kellman. They were all […]
Sometimes it’s just fun to watch a bevy of worthy actors take on a simple, so-so screenplay just to see what they can do with it. Based on a novel […]
Documentary filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland has made two films—Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, about the legendary fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar who also happens to be her grandmother-in-law; […]
As Whitney, the new, estate-approved documentary about Whitney Houston opens, we see clips from her video for “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” but with all the instrumentation stripped away, so […]
If you’ve been paying any kind of attention to films about the black experience in present-day America, you’ve probably figured out that the city of Oakland plays a central role […]
In a move from a franchise that I’ve always appreciated but thought was running out of steam, creator James DeMonaco’s Purge series takes a completely unexpected and even more primal […]
After the tectonic cultural shift that was Black Panther and the world-breaking climax of Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel’s final film of 2018 will probably be something of a relief to […]
July has finally arrived in Chicago—and with it an increased likelihood that we’ll all become the unwilling victims of gruesome, debilitating heat waves. If you need something to do while […]
Opening this weekend is Boundaries, the latest from writer/director Shana Feste, a filmmaker who has specialized lately in more romantically inclined works, including Country Strong and the 2014 remake of […]
Filmmaker Sara Driver (You Are Not I, When Pigs Fly) was herself a major player in the New York City art scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s and […]
I’m a collector of performances. Believe it or not, I’m not big into film memorabilia, toys, posters, soundtracks or other remembrances of movies I love (it’s more an issue of […]