Well that was unpleasant. The first two names that jumped out at me when looking into the specifics of the new film starring Russell Crowe were writer Carl Ellsworth (the remakes of […]
For most of my adult life (and even for a couple years before then), I found myself defending horror movies as being something that reflected violence (and quite often misogyny) in our […]
One of the busiest directors of 2020 has got to be documentary filmmaker Danny Wolf, who has already released the highly enjoyable, three-part doc series Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of […]
Actor Noah Segan is likely best known of late for playing the fanboy-ish investigator Trooper Wagner in writer/director Rian Johnson’s exceedingly popular and joyously fun Knives Out from last year. And many of […]
When it comes to Russian horror films, I don’t exactly have a deep expertise. Thankfully, such a viewing history isn’t required to get a thrill out of Sputnik, the latest from IFC […]
In 2002, a lot of documentaries about 9/11 were released. In 2009, it was economics and the recession. 2020 is proving to be the year of the political documentary, as something about […]
There’s a moment not too long into Boys State, the Sundance Grand Jury award-winning documentary about the annual mock-government conference for Texas high schoolers run by the American Legion now streaming on AppleTV, […]
The last film I saw in movie theaters before the shutdown order was Hello, Dolly! in glorious 70mm at Music Box Theatre. Arguably not Barbra Streisand’s most critically acclaimed work, it’s nevertheless a […]
The first half of the latest film from Belgian-born director Robin Pront, The Silencing, is quite good, due largely to the fact that it feels like the beginning, middle and end of […]
Having gone for more than a year without a new Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, and with the last two DC comics-based films being based on villains (Joker and Birds of Prey)—much like […]
Filmmaker Amy Seimetz is perhaps best know for being one of the few actors to walk comfortably on both sides of the line that separates micro-budget indie works and bigger-budget studio movies. […]
Admittedly, the prospect of watching a film starring Liam Neeson and his real-life son, Michael Richardson (whose mother, Natasha Richardson, died in 2009) as an estranged father and grown son whose wife/mother […]
