Review: A Newsman Gets His Due in Mike Wallace Is Here
The generation obsessed with social media and information that’s instantly available may not even know who Mike Wallace was (and they’re the worse off for it). Though 60 Minutes, the show […]
Review: Debut Thriller Luz Channels Demons, Chaos and Impressive Performances
One of the first things you’ll notice about Luz, the debut feature film from writer/director Tilman Singer, is its grit, both literally and figuratively. Shot on 16mm film, there’s the […]
Review: Black Harvest Film Festival Features the History of Blue Note Records in It Must Schwing!
Some of the strongest films at any year’s Black Harvest Film Festival, the annual month-long film series at the Gene Siskel Film Center now in its 25th year, are the […]
Review: Humor, Strong Performances Help a Timely Tel Aviv on Fire
While watching the latest from director/co-writer Sameh Zoabi (Under the Same Sun), it’s sometimes difficult to tell if he has such a firm grasp on the current situation between Israel […]
Review: High Crime-ing and Ms.-Demeanors with Mueller, She Wrote
Constitutional crisis commentary has become a cottage industry, and three SoCal women have carved out their niche with focused, funny, and accessible vivisections of the constant onslaught. The Daily Beans […]
Review: Hobbs & Shaw Have Some Growing Up To Do in Fast & Furious Spin-Off
It’s no secret that the Fast & Furious films (there have been eight up to this point) get bigger and dumber as the numbers get higher. Now apparently, there are […]
Review: Strong Performances Support Skin‘s Story of Redemption
Every year, the Oscars dole out top honors for three short films: one documentary, one animated and one narrative live-action. There’s a complicated qualifying process, a very large selection pool […]
Review: Carmine Street Guitars Celebrates Craftsmanship, Passion for the Handmade
This a single-location documentary that rarely strays from the interior of an unassuming little store/workshop, tucked away in the middle of a quiet block in New York’s Greenwich Village. In […]
Review: The Times and Trials of David Crosby in Remember My Name
There are moments in this revealing documentary about singer/songwriter David Crosby that seem so intimate and personal, you feel the need to look away from the screen, if only to […]
Review: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Revisits, Celebrates a Bygone Cinematic Era
Like many works by Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is an exercise in creation and re-creation, often simultaneously, but never more so than in this love letter/death knell […]
Review: A Confederate Comedy of Errors in Sword of Trust
For more than a decade, filmmaker Lynn Shelton has been making relationship-driven dramedies with some of the independent film scene’s most talented actors from Mark Duplass to Rosemarie DeWitt, Ellen […]
Review: Armstrong Chronicles How an Ordinary Man Made it to the Moon
Sometimes with documentaries, you just let an incredible story unfold and don’t worry too much about the bells and whistles that surround it. Or in the case of Armstrong, a […]