People seem to enjoy giving Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin grief, and I’m not entirely clear on why. Obviously as a screenwriter, not all of his words are of equal worth, but […]
On the surface, the documentary Space Dogs is about the Soviet space program during its infancy, when dogs were placed into spacecrafts and sent above the atmosphere and eventually (usually) […]
My admiration for writer/director/artist Miranda July runs deep, and the feeling began when I first saw her 2005 debut feature Me and You and Everyone We Know (her follow-up, The […]
Jimmy (Twilight’s Jackson Rathbone) and Maggie (Narcos’ Andrea Londo) keep meeting. Not in real life, mind you, but in each other’s dreams. They’ll bump into one another in waking life […]
Being totally unfamiliar with author Nancy Springer’s six-novel series about the teenage sister of detective Sherlock Holmes and Mycroft Holmes (who is also technically Enola’s legal guardian), I wasn’t exactly […]
The practice of including a “trigger warning” in advance of sharing certain content can be seen as either a considerate editorial choice or an overly “woke” decision that coddles to […]
Generally speaking, I’m always open to a food documentary. The story of a masterful sushi chef who’s influenced a generation from his six-seat restaurant under a train station? I’m in. […]
I was somewhat leery when the synopsis for Antebellum described the first-time writing/directing team Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz as “advocacy filmmakers…best known for their pioneering advertising work engaged in […]
When we first meet Lily (Susan Sarandon), it’s during a long and seemingly painful exercise of getting up and out of bed, getting dressed, and making it down the stairs […]
With his first feature Martha Marcy May Marlene, writer/director Sean Durkin told a harrowing story about sisterhood—both blood relations and the kind you choose (in the case of that film, […]
There are some who have a front-row seat to history, yet we never know their names and rarely notice them in the photos that depict such moments. And that’s for […]
The flawed but still compelling latest feature from director/co-writer Yuval Adler (The Operative, Bethlehem) takes the somewhat familiar story (at least in movies) of a former Nazi soldier found in […]