“Isn’t it great to be in a movie theater?” So Leonard Maltin kicked off a tribute evening to Nicole Kidman and Javier Barden at the 37th edition of the Santa…
Read moreThe best South Korean film from last year, Lee Tae-gyeom’s “I Don’t Fire Myself” is a sobering social drama about one ordinary woman’s hard and desperate struggle for her life and existence. Often…
Read moreThere’s so much going on in “Three Months,” so many emotional pieces in motion, but very little of it is particularly moving. “Three Months” refers to how long Caleb (Troye Sivan)…
Read moreI approached “Vikings: Valhalla” with a heavy skepticism. Never a big fan of the History channel original and somewhat exhausted by period action tropes, I didn’t see what this sequel…
Read more“Lincoln’s Dilemma” is a four-part, non-fiction Apple TV+ miniseries about the almost unimaginably difficult choices that faced newly-elected President Abraham Lincoln in the period leading up to the Civil War…
Read moreTo not be uncomfortable with our history as Americans is to be in denial of it. Censoring the atrocities in our collective past so as not to disturb students and…
Read moreWith “Cyrano,” Joe Wright delivers one from the heart—not that he ever makes movies any other way. Lavish, effusive, and disarmingly sincere, all the British director’s best films since 2005’s…
Read moreIt’s difficult to imagine what “Better Things” would be like if Louis CK had never left. The heartbreaking, uplifting, tearjerking FX dramedy, co-created by CK and director/star Pamela Adlon, spent…
Read moreHorror has always been a home for DIY filmmaking. There’s something magical about a group of like-minded people who go into the woods and come out with a work of…
Read moreThe latest conjuring from the DIY filmmaking group known as the Adams family is “Hellbender,” a punk rock horror story of a self-isolated mother (Toby Poser) and daughter (Zelda Adams) who rock…
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