Another example of pure pandemic cinema is this week’s release of Family Squares, a lightweight but often quite funny work from director and co-writer (with Brad Morris) Stephanie Laing (Irreplaceable […]
As only Danny Boyle (credited here as an executive producer) and Irvine Welsh (who co-wrote the screenplay with Dean Cavanagh) can, Creation Stories tells the riotous, overly indulgent life story […]
The tradition of having musicians star in movies is a long and dubious one. I’m not talking about the practice of putting song and dance performers in leading roles; no, […]
On October 29, 2018, a Lion Air flight crashed off the coast of Jakarta, Indonesia, shortly after takeoff. On March 10, 2019, an Ethiopian Air flight crashed into a field […]
Strawberry Mansion—writer-directors Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s wildly surreal, charmingly offbeat indie—is part dystopian sci-fi, part storybook fantasy, and part quirky horror, the sort of mishmash movie that calls to […]
There have been a lot of documentaries in recent years about noted chefs, restaurants and food trends, but I haven’t seen one quite like Breaking Bread, from director Beth Elise […]
Thankfully not a reboot or remake, this Texas Chainsaw Massacre serves as a direct (albeit 50-years-later) sequel to the events of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 landmark work The Texas Chain Saw […]
From the director of the terrific documentary Peter and the Farm, Tony Stone, comes his narrative feature debut Ted K. The film borrows heavily from the doc aesthetic to bring […]
I tend not to get lost in discussions of how films are marketed. If you’re dumb enough to fall for a film’s marketing campaign or don’t understand that trailers quite […]
I have some very pointed questions to ask devoted players of video games who actually look forward to the occasional film adaptations of those games. And while these are serious […]
In these modern times, it is notoriously difficult to make a quality romcom (ahem, Marry Me). Relationships begin and end with little more than a swipe these days, and in […]
Sometimes film reviews are hard to write. Especially, at least for me, reviews for films I don’t have strong feelings about one way or another. Finding ways to say, “Meh, […]