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Review: Aline Channels Celine Dion’s Life Story into a Bombastic, Oddball Film that’s Nevertheless Endlessly Watchable

Every now and then—it’s rare, but it happens!—a film comes along that is just an absolute gift of absurdity and delight from start to finish. The head-scratching abounds, but damn […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • April 8, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Immersive and Observational, Cow Brings Us Up Close to Farm Life and Food Production

    Not unlike the recent documentary Gunda (about the lives of a mother and baby pigs), Cow follows the thankless life (four years of it, actually) of a dairy cow and […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 8, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In What Feels a Bit Too Much Like Course-Correction, Michael Bay Returns to Fast-Moving Action in Ambulance

    It’s easy to understand why a lot of people might view the new Michael Bay-directed Ambulance as something of a throwback to his old, balls-out, minimal special effects action romps, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 8, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Oscar-Winning Free Solo Filmmakers Rocket from Mountains to the Stars in Return to Space

    Oscar-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin are best known for profiling death-defying feats of bravery/foolishness at various spots around the Earth in films like Free Solo, The Rescue […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 7, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Chronicling Skateboarder Tony Hawk’s Epic Career, Until the Wheels Fall Off Sticks the Landing

    Knowing a bit of the of journey of supreme professional skateboarder Tony Hawk would probably go a long way toward appreciating the new documentary about his life and career, Tony […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 5, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Gagarine Channels Youthful Angst with Heartfelt, Insightful Filmmaking

    Playing out like a faded photograph of a bygone era on the periphery of Paris, Gagarine comes courtesy of first-time feature filmmakers Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, who based the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 4, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Much-Delayed Morbius Misses the Chance to Launch a Truly Compelling Comic Book Anti-Hero

    At this point, I think it’s fair to say that any comic book character that has even the most remote stink of Spider-Man on them is fair game for a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 1, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Automat Serves Up Morsels of History, Memories of Bygone America

    File this one under the category: Documentaries I Didn’t Know I Needed Until I Watched It. From first-time filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz, The Automat tells the all-but-lost history of the Horn […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 1, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Chris Pine Gets Intense as a Mercenary Trying to Solve a Mystery in The Contractor

    Taking a crack at a bare-bones action-thriller B-movie, Chris Pine (Star Trek, Wonder Woman) plays Special Forces Sgt. James Harper in The Contractor. He finds himself in trouble with the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 1, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Nostalgia, Ambition and Outer Space Loom Large in Richard Linklater’s Endearing Apollo 10½

    Using the same animation style (and lead animator Tommy Pallotta) he used in Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, writer/director Richard Linklater brings us the more personal tale of his […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 1, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Overstuffed and Unfunny, The Bubble Fails to Make a Pandemic Production Entertaining

    Apparently writer/director Judd Apatow and co-writer Pam Brady (Hot Rod, Hamlet 2, Team America) see the health-related restrictions put on film and television productions during the pandemic as creating both […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 1, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Visual Feast, Everything Everywhere All At Once Is Confounding, Compelling and One of the Year’s Best

    There are times when a film might attempt to pack too much movie into a single work, and I can easily see people having that issue with the latest from […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 1, 2022
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