Oscar Poll: Best Director 2018
In years past, the Academy closely tied the Best Director Oscar to the Best Picture winner, but that’s not always the case anymore. What’s your prediction for this category?
In years past, the Academy closely tied the Best Director Oscar to the Best Picture winner, but that’s not always the case anymore. What’s your prediction for this category?
Hearing that a new coming-of-age story will hit screens is the indie/awards season version of the announcement of a new comic book blockbuster. It’s inevitable that a handful of these will be released every year, and it̵...
’20th Century Women’ makes a strong case for filmmakers indulgently wallowing in memory and autobiography. It’s a sweet and touching little picture that suggests writer/director Mike Mills might just be transform...
Writer/director Todd Solondz is an acquired taste, but for those who’ve developed the buds for his particular brand of empathetic misery comedy, there are few filmmakers today more fascinating.
Rebecca Miller’s latest feature, ‘Maggie’s Plan’, is one of those awkward romantic comedies. Although new to the filmmaker, whose somewhat sporadic career has typically been defined by drama, it certainly w...
It’s been only a few months since Noah Baumbach’s last movie ‘While We’re Young’ hit theater screens, but the master of cynicism is already back with another tale of narcissists on the path to a meltd...
In some ways, ‘The Humbling’ plays like a darker sibling to recent Oscar nominee ‘Birdman’. Both films deal with over-the-hill actors experiencing mental breakdowns mid-production on a play, both favor an e...
‘The Humbling’ serves up yet another film about the pains of being an aging white man delivered by a collection of famous aging white men. Generally speaking, that’s bad news. (See ‘Last Vegas’ for mo...
Captain’s log Five dot One-Seven dot One-Three. Get off your asses and head to the closest large-format screen immediately!
This week’s Blu-ray release slate is low on new titles that many people are likely to have heard of, and heavy on double-bill reissues of previously released movies. However, we also have a handful of really good classics on...
One of my Big Three most anticipated movies of the summer opens this weekend – and, no, it’s not the ‘Madagascar’ three-quel.