‘Detroit’ Review: Hard History
Kathryn Bigelow’s ongoing collaboration with journalist-turned-screenwriter Mark Boal previously gave us the searing history lessons of ‘The Hurt Locker’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, uncompromising visions...
Kathryn Bigelow’s ongoing collaboration with journalist-turned-screenwriter Mark Boal previously gave us the searing history lessons of ‘The Hurt Locker’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, uncompromising visions...
Most comedians make their leap from ‘Saturday Night Live’ to movies with something safe. If it’s not an outright adaptation of one of their ‘SNL’ characters, then it’s at least a mainstream come...
Eleven years ago, former Vice President Al Gore turned a PowerPoint presentation into an Oscar-winning documentary. That’s not easy and probably shouldn’t have been possible. However, the subject was climate change and...
It was always safe to assume that ‘The Emoji Movie’ would be bad. Basing an entire animated film on the little winky faces that you text to friends when you’re too drunk to think up actual words is about as artis...
Cold War spy angst and goofy old-school physical action don’t exactly sound like comfortable bedfellows, but ‘John Wick’ co-director and future ‘Deadpool 2’ director David Leitch thought he’d gi...
In no way connected to Shakespeare beyond hinting at the psychosis to come (and even that’s a bit of a misdirect), ‘Lady Macbeth’ takes the sumptuous visual trappings of a British period drama and uses them to we...
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ has a summer blockbuster release date because that’s the tentpole template within which the filmmaker works. However, as viscerally thrilling and technically stunning as the fi...
‘The Black Prince’ thoughtfully explores a forgotten (yet important) piece of colonial history. Written and directed with sincerity by star Kavi Raz, it’s clearly a passion project for the actor-turned-filmmaker ...
Take a peek at any of the trailers or posters for ‘Girls Trip’ and you’ll think you’re being sold a wacky R-rated “girls behaving badly” comedy not unlike the movie ‘Rough Night’ tha...
There used to be a thriving market of European filmmakers who made trashy exploitation movies for a global market. Sadly, Luc Besson is essentially the last man standing in this genre movie tradition. But he’s also one of th...
It was always safe to assume that the directorial debut of musician Flying Lotus (a.k.a. Steven Ellison) was going to be a little out there. That’s just his way. The actual film, ‘Kuso’, is somehow even more fuck...
Writer/director David Lowery’s ‘A Ghost Story’ shouldn’t work. It’s an existential exploration of life, death, love, loss, memory and time, in which the main character is a ghost covered by a bed shee...