Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard Star in Beautifully Crafted Relationship Drama Memory

This year has been a very good one for the kind of films I’m naturally drawn to, films without much flash or special effects but with real, authentic stories about […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: The Batman Is a New Approach to a Classic Character, Grounded in Detective Work and the Price of Power

If you haven’t figured it out by now, filmmaker Matt Reeves knows what he’s doing. And probably without meaning to, he’s built an admirable career out of breathing new life […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: American Remake The Guilty Is a Tense, Effective Drama with Another Strong Performance from Jake Gyllenhaal

The Guilty

Closely following the one-man plot of its 2018 Danish source material (which went on to become Denmark’s Oscar contender that year), The Guilty finds a way to be both faithful […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Icy Drama The Lie and Twisted Sci-Fi Black Box Kick Off Amazon Prime and Blumhouse Horror Film Quartet

The Lie

During the month of October, Amazon Prime Video will release a quartet of films from Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios. They’re being promoted as horror films, but the first two […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Despite a Sense of Urgency Mr. Jones is a Bleak Look Back at History

Mr. Jones

Based on real events, Mr. Jones is a pre-World War II drama that centers on some of the events that led (or perhaps misled) to paving the way for Hitler […]

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