Review: Mourning, Belief and Unlikely Buddies in To Dust
A strange and haunting work, To Dust is the feature debut from Shawn Snyder, a veteran sound mixer who has made many shorts over the years. His latest film begins as a […]
Review: An Epic, Ambitious Never Look Away Comes Up Short
For those of us who pay attention to this sort of thing, this year’s contenders for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film are collectively the strongest group of […]
Review: A Stilted Storyline Saved by Strong Performances in Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows
What’s most striking about writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s (A Separation, The Salesman) new film, Everybody Knows, even with strong performances and its setting in lush Spanish wine country taken into account, is […]
Review: Stunning Visuals Make for an Impressive, if Predictable Alita: Battle Angel
There’s almost no way to fully take in everything on display in Alita: Battle Angel, the latest from director and co-writer Robert Rodriguez. He also worked on this long-on-the-shelf script […]
Review: Junk Science and a Pinch of Absurdity Make Happy Death Day 2U A Killer Sequel
It only took the good folks at Blumhouse a year and four months (to the day) to release the sequel to the surprise comedy-horror hit Happy Death Day, which is […]
Review: Little to Fall In Love With in Isn’t It Romantic
Somehow, it seems fitting that in a time when meta is the new normal, a film that attempts to deconstruct and examine the elements of the romantic-comedy genre is this […]
Interview: French Actress Judith Godréche on Moving to America, Producing, and What’s Next in #MeToo
Since the mid-1980s, Paris-born actress Judith Godréche has been acting primarily in French-language works, including Ridicule, L’auberge espagnole, Potiche, and as part of the all-star cast of 1998’s The Man […]
Interview: Taraji P. Henson on Comedy, Keeping Busy and Being Ahead of the Curve
I first met Taraji P. Henson a little more than 10 years ago when she was promoting one of the most important roles of her career, that of Queenie in […]
Review: Rendezvous In Chicago Is a Blurry Snapshot of Love in the Windy City
Rendezvous in Chicago, the new film by Chicago-based filmmaker Michael Glover Smith, promises to be a set of comedic vignettes about love and life in the Windy City, but it […]
Review: Mads Mikkelsen Faces a Test of Endurance in Arctic
When Danish acting powerhouse Mads Mikkelsen showed up for an extended cameo in last year’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate as a priest providing comfort and advice to the […]
Review: A Variety of Styles, Emotions in Animated Short Film Oscar Nominees
As good or bad as you may believe the state of movies and the movie-going experience may be, I thank my lucky stars every year around this time that someone […]
Review: Harrowing, Heartfelt Stories in the Short Docs Up for Oscar
If you’re looking for a pick-me-up at the movies this weekend, checking out the Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films may not be the way to go. A powerful, haunting slate […]