Review: As Remakes Go, a New Suspiria is Ambitious, Thrilling and Sometimes Hard to Watch
The reason I’ve never been on the front lines of calling for a ban on remakes in the film world is because sometimes a director manages to take the remake […]
Review: Bohemian Rhapsody Gets a Lot Right, But Isn’t the Whole Queen Story
Whether or not you enjoy Bohemian Rhapsody, the biography film of the band Queen, will likely depend on what kind of movie you’re in the mood to see when you […]
See a 4K Restoration of John Carpenter’s The Fog at Music Box Theatre
For those currently enamored with director John Carpenter’s original 1978 Halloween, you’ll likely be even more impressed (and definitely more terrified) by what was his follow-up feature, 1980’s The Fog […]
Review: Rupert Everett Impresses In Front of and Behind the Camera in The Happy Prince
I’m sure I’m not the first person to make this statement, but there is quite simply no actor on the planet more suited to play the late author/playwright/literary genius Oscar […]
Review: A Search for Purpose, Belonging in Genre-Bending Border
From the opening frames of Border, the second feature from Iranian-born, Danish-dwelling filmmaker Ali Abbasi (Shelley), we know something isn’t quite normal. Set in Sweden, the film is part human […]
Review: Jonah Hill Revisits Adolescence, Skate Culture in Nostalgic, Authentic Mid90s
When you’re a kid, becoming a part of something is often the most important thing in your life, especially when the social constructs that most of us take for granted—family, […]
Review: Perhaps Highly Watchable, Hunter Killer Is Also Crowded, Messy
I’ll fully admit that I’m not a subscriber to the “so bad it’s good” school of terrible movies, but Hunter Killer might just slide into that category whether I want […]
Review: Chicagoan Elizabeth Chomko’s What They Had Is So Polished It Shines
What They Had is a wonderful film. There’s no use burying the lede on Chicagoan Elizabeth Chomko’s writing and directing debut. The script won the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting […]
Shifting Consciousness: A Review of HBO’s “Random Acts of Flyness”
Black life is “surreal.” A word often synonymous with “dreamlike.” How apt a description. Like the sweetest dream, Blackness is a state of ethereal beauty and bliss. On the best, […]
Review: Entertaining Studio 54 Is a Dance Party And Then Some
One imagines that Studio 54, the new documentary by Matt Tyrnauer about the infamous ’70s nightclub, played very well to NYC audiences when it opened there earlier this month. Chances are, the […]
Review: Where Are the Scares? You Had One Job, Halloween.
I think we can all agree that at its core, a horror movie should be scary on some level. It can be many other things as well, but it needs […]
Review: Carell and Chalamet Star in a Heartbreaking, Hopeful Beautiful Boy
You’ll watch most of Beautiful Boy with a lump in your throat. The story of a father and son (Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet) navigating the younger man’s battle with […]