Film Review – Norman: Portraying a Desperate New York Hustler, Richard Gere Excels
If you’re paying any kind of attention to the career of Richard Gere (and you still should be), you’ll notice that every couple of years, he comes up with yet […]
Film Review: Phoenix Forgotten, A Legitimately Creepy Blair Witch-Inspired Sci-fi Thriller
Although not technically a found footage film, Phoenix Forgotten is a faux documentary that includes a great deal of found footage, which is a step in the right direction for […]
Film Review: The Promise, A Love Triangle in the Midst of Wartime Atrocities
If your taste for a love triangle set against a horrific war hasn’t really been satiated since Doctor Zhivago, then there’s a chance you’ll enjoy The Promise. From director Terry […]
Film Review: Free Fire, An Exercise in Barely Controlled Chaos
The details don’t really matter, but if you can keep up with who is where in this giant Boston warehouse and who is shooting at who, well that only makes […]
Film Review: The Lost City of Z, The Engrossing Story of a Remarkable Journey
Director James Gray has always made movies about perpetual outsiders, people who are living and existing in places far away from where they were born and grew up. He’s dealt […]
Film Review: Born in China, A Visually Stunning Tour of Animals in the Chinese Countryside
Like most of the DisneyNature films released once a year around Earth Day, there isn’t much to say about them beyond the fact that they are visually stunning efforts in […]
Film Review – Cézanne et Moi: Opulent, Almost Pretentious
A bit on the dry side and a darling at the recently ended European Union Film Festival, Cézanne et Moi, the latest work from writer-director Danièle Thompson (La bûche, Avenue […]
Film Review: Tommy’s Honour, A Picturesque Examination of Golf’s Early Greats
I will never fully understand films that contribute to the deification of golf or other sports. In certain books but especially in cinema, golf is treated as if its players […]
Film Review – Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo, Inside the Race to the Moon
Directed and edited by veteran British documentary editor David Fairhead, this exceedingly thorough, educational, and often quite nerve wracking documentary about NASA’s Houston-based Mission Control goes into a great deal […]
Film Review: American Anarchist, Author of “The Anarchist Cookbook” Answers For His Past
In many ways, it doesn’t seem fair to confront a man deep in his 60s about a something he did when he was just 19 years old. But not everyone […]
Film Review: Frantz, Quietly Devastating
Celebrated French director François Ozon (The New Girlfriend, Swimming Pool, Under the Sand) turns his attention briefly away from France, toward a small town in post-World War I Germany, focusing […]
Film Review: Their Finest, A Charming Tale of Filmmaking in the Throes of War
A great companion piece to the recently released Netflix doc series Five Came Back, about American filmmakers’ role during World War II, Their Finest takes a look at how the […]