It’s been forty years since the French comedy Get Out Your Handkerchiefs won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Cohen Film Collection is reviving the film in … Read More
Shazam is a feel-good delight, but full of monsters
Shazam! ****POSSIBLE MILD SPOILERS AHEAD**** With a word, a 15 year old boy lives the dreams of every comic book reading kid, and becomes a superhero. We … Read More
Movie Review: “Diane” is a perfect showcase for Mary Kay Place
The Big Chill star is Diane, a woman hiding from herself. Diane is the kind of quiet gem that doesn’t get made (or seen) very much in the current movie landscape. … Read More
Movie Review: “Birds of Passage” has fresh visuals, familiar story
Review: Birds of Passage The new Colombian film Birds of Passage (Pájaros de verano) seeks to offer a fresh spin on the era-spanning crime epic, by showing us an aspect … Read More
Movie Review: Mr. Rogers “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? The year’s first great tearjerker. The new documentary about TV’s Mister Rogers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is a love story, but not in the traditional sense. It’s … Read More
Movie Review: Brothers Separated as Babies are “Three Identical Strangers”
The manic joy and deep sadness of Three Identical Strangers reunited as teenagers. Director Tim Wardle’s new documentary Three Identical Strangers reminded me slightly of Eugene Jarecki’s standout doc from 2003, Capturing the … Read More
Movie review: “Summer 1993” is a miraculous debut
Don’t watch the trailer for Carla Simón’s Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993). Simón’s autobiographical first feature is the kind of low-key character study that is impossible to market and, in excerpts, it can … Read More
Movie review: James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander can’t float “Submergence”
An old tried-and-true rule that carries over from the days of VHS rental stores is that if you come across a movie that you have never heard of, but the … Read More
Movie Review: Soderbergh psychodrama makes Claire Foy go “Unsane”
Director Steven Soderbergh’s post-“retirement” career is kicking into high gear, with the release of his third project in roughly seven months. Like the feature film Logan Lucky and the interactive serial … Read More
Movie Review: The Last Jedi (With No Spoilers!)
The Last Jedi, the eighth installment in the world-renowned Star Wars franchise, opens world wide on 15 December, 2017. I was able to see an early show, and can deliver … Read More
Movie Review: Thor: Ragnarok
Thor: Ragnarok presents a beautiful homage to 1970s Sci Fi epics mashed together with 1980’s video games. There is always something happening, and that something is always brightly colored and … Read More
Movie Review: Breezy heist flick “Logan Lucky” is a lotta fun
It turns out that filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s decision to retire from movies was as final as Jay-Z’s much-publicized retirement from rapping. It’s been four years since Side Effects graced cinema screens, but … Read More
Review: ‘Railroad Tigers’ is a Jackie Chan gem
Railroad Tigers It begins with a group of Chinese children visiting a railroad museum, a chalk drawing of a winged tiger, and a historical tale spun to enthrall an inquisitive … Read More
Movie Review: The Autopsy of Jane Doe
The Autopsy of Jane Doe IFC Midnight Available in digital HD I really do love horror films and fiction, but I’ve gotten to where I always have one … Read More