The Colony
Tim Fehlbaum’s “The Colony” has many ideas about the future, and while not all of them quite stick together, there’s a few interesting aesthetic and narrative choices to make it…
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AAFCA TV Honors 2021 to Stream This Saturday, August 28th
I was happy to join Gil Robertson, the President of the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), in presenting the 2021 AAFCA Special Achievement Impact Award to “Queen Sugar,” at the…
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KVIFF 2021: The Worst Person in the World and a Conversation with Radu Jude
I walked out of Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” feeling pretty good. Trier’s a great writer/director, the kind who makes movies that feel exactly as long and…
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Out Upon the World’s Stage: Lincoln as History and Tragedy
Tony Kushner once admitted that he found the prospect of writing about Abraham Lincoln to be a daunting challenge. “The hard thing,” Kushner said, “is that Abraham Lincoln was a…
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Ebertfest Postponed Until April 20-23, 2022
Dear Ebertfest Audience, As we get closer to the date for the Roger Ebert Film Festival (Ebertfest), we are receiving many messages expressing concern about the Delta Variant of COVID-19.…
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The Good Fight Complicates Our Black and White World
Resetting a show is hard. “The Good Fight” has done it well, twice. A spin-off of the Julianna Margulies CBS vehicle “The Good Wife,” the Christine Baranski edition was commissioned when…
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Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building is a Playful True-Crime Romp
The good news about Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” is that it’s just about as funny and charming as one would expect from a murder mystery involving Steve Martin,…
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Mosquito State
There’s something wrong with Wall Street analyst Richard Boca (Beau Knapp), the main character in the underwhelming horror drama “Mosquito State.” Not “wrong” like the puffy welts that eventually overwhelm…
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