In the first feature from writer/director Ekwa Msangi, a family must find their way home. In the case of New York City taxi driver Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), his wife Esther […]
The latest work from writer/director Tara Miele (Staring in Suburbia, The Lake Effect) is a classic case of style over substance starring two great actors doing their best to draw us into […]
When the trailer for the Michael Bay-produced Songbird dropped, there was a loud chorus of “No” heard round the world. Set just a few years in the future and in the midst […]
With more than our own fair share of political headaches to navigate the last four years, you’d be forgiven for not following the saga around the 2017 assassination of North Korean leader […]
In what may just hold the record for stage-to-screen adaptations, Ryan Murphy brings to Netflix a gaudy, busy, over-the-top film version of The Prom, the surprisingly well-received Broadway show that only just […]
If you have trouble figuring out the century in which Wild Mountain Thyme takes place, I don’t think you’ll be alone. The latest film from writer/director John Patrick Shanley (Joe Versus the […]
I will always give points for weird, but there’s a fine line between weird and aimless. I’ll fully admit to being a certain level of captivated by writer/director Adam Egypt Mortimer’s (Daniel […]
Director Steven Soderbergh continues to enjoy (and thrive in) his un-retirement with such works as Logan Lucky, Unsane, High Flying Bird and the rare misstep The Laundromat, last year’s ensemble piece that […]
Often the lone voice of reason amidst the government’s confused and insufficient response to the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci (director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) recently made the […]
It takes a certain kind of person to become a rockstar. There’s talent involved, of course; one has to have that innate ability to perform, the skill to play an instrument, sing […]
There was a time in my life when I was obsessed with Danish cinema; it began in the late 1990s, when the Dogme 95 movement began, but it lasted well beyond that […]
The story is fairly straightforward and deceptively simple, but the emotions are complex, separating writer/director Zeina Durra’s Luxor from other travelogues disguised as movies. Durra (The Imperialists Are Still Alive!) owes a […]
