Actor Noah Segan is likely best known of late for playing the fanboy-ish investigator Trooper Wagner in writer/director Rian Johnson’s exceedingly popular and joyously fun Knives Out from last year. And […]
When it comes to Russian horror films, I don’t exactly have a deep expertise. Thankfully, such a viewing history isn’t required to get a thrill out of Sputnik, the latest […]
In 2002, a lot of documentaries about 9/11 were released. In 2009, it was economics and the recession. 2020 is proving to be the year of the political documentary, as […]
There’s a moment not too long into Boys State, the Sundance Grand Jury award-winning documentary about the annual mock-government conference for Texas high schoolers run by the American Legion now streaming […]
The last film I saw in movie theaters before the shutdown order was Hello, Dolly! in glorious 70mm at Music Box Theatre. Arguably not Barbra Streisand’s most critically acclaimed work, it’s […]
The first half of the latest film from Belgian-born director Robin Pront, The Silencing, is quite good, due largely to the fact that it feels like the beginning, middle and […]
Having gone for more than a year without a new Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, and with the last two DC comics-based films being based on villains (Joker and Birds of […]
Filmmaker Amy Seimetz is perhaps best know for being one of the few actors to walk comfortably on both sides of the line that separates micro-budget indie works and bigger-budget […]
Admittedly, the prospect of watching a film starring Liam Neeson and his real-life son, Michael Richardson (whose mother, Natasha Richardson, died in 2009) as an estranged father and grown son […]
This is one of the more difficult reviews I’ve had to write all year for the simple fact that writer/director Amy Seimetz’s (the prolific indie actor whose previous feature was […]
Based on the 2003 Norwegian novel by Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses is a sweeping story of traumas inflicted by war, by circumstance, even by our own families. The film version, […]
In his own way, songwriter Howard Ashman was as important a creator of a type of musical theater as more established lyricists like Stephen Sondheim, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Andrew […]