For reasons that don’t quite make sense even to me, the prospect of actor Zoë Kravitz directing/co-writing a film (with E.T. Feigenbaum) has filled me with excitement since I heard […]

The world has been threatening to make a new Fletch movie (based on the comical mystery novels by Gregory McDonald) for many decades now (I remember Kevin Smith had one […]

Shortly after the thud made by last year’s long-delayed The Current War, we get a much stronger and more nuanced take on turn-of-the-century inventors. But instead of narrowing the focus […]

Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, I used to have a day job that required me to travel to various locations around the world, and no matter where I […]

In this unexpectedly satisfying sophomore work from writer/director Keith Behrman (2002’s Flowers & Garnet), Giant Little Ones is the story of two fairly popular high school boys—Franky (Josh Wiggins) and […]

One of the week’s most unexpected treats can be found via Netflix—it’s the second film directed by Steven Soderbergh using only an iPhone as his camera (as he did with […]

The House With a Clock in Its Walls is a very bad title for a movie. The unfortunate tagline—”This house knows what makes you tick.”—is even worse. Fortunately, the film to […]