With certain species of seahorse, the males give birth; with others, they have both male and female reproductive organs; still others can change gender depending on reproductive needs. None of […]
On the shortlist of actors who I’ll watch in pretty much anything, Bill Nighy is near the top. Effortlessly charming and dryly funny, he consistently brings a warmth and wit […]
Wisely shedding its original Danish title Suicide Tourist, the second feature from director Jonas Alexander Arnby (When Animals Dream, a Cannes debut and one of my favorite films from Fantasia […]
There’s a scene early on in the new Judd Apatow-directed The King of Staten Island in which the central character, Scott Carlin (SNL’s Pete Davidson), is explaining to his oldest […]
Timing is everything. Then again, great filmmaking is great filmmaking no matter the surroundings. But in the case of director Spike Lee’s latest, Da 5 Bloods, the film feels so […]
Oh, this is not good. But here’s the thing: once in a great while, I see something so bad that I want everyone else to see it to, just so […]
Although I am not of a mind that director Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 opus Showgirls is anything but watchable trash, there are many who believe it is a masterpiece—or at least […]
Elisabeth Moss is the rare actress who has made remarkable work in both television (“Mad Men,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Top of the Lake”) and film (Her Smell, Us, The Invisible […]
In his first feature since 2014’s controversial Pasolini, writer/director Abel Ferrara (Ms .45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant) re-emerges with Tommaso, a work that is part biography, part fantasy, […]
Too often in documentaries about artists, the focus rest heavily on the final product, and that’s often the case because the subject is deceased. But in director Daniel Traub’s deeply […]
Long have I been an admirer of Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald (Roadkill, Pontypool), who frequently takes his genre work into more surreal territory that sometimes threatens to/delights in dipping its […]
If it weren’t so cartoonishly violent, you might almost be able to take a thriller with the unlikely name of Becky seriously. Of course, the fact that nearly all of […]