Sundance Journal: ‘Chasing Coral’
This year’s Sundance Film Festival kicked off with Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’. I didn’t catch that one, but from what I’ve heard, the documentary follow-up is completely unnecessary and ...
This year’s Sundance Film Festival kicked off with Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’. I didn’t catch that one, but from what I’ve heard, the documentary follow-up is completely unnecessary and ...
I have yet to watch an episode of HBO’s hit comedy ‘Silicon Valley’, so ‘The Big Sick’ was my introduction to Pakistani comedian-turned-actor/writer Kumail Nanjiani. With the help of producers Judd Ap...
The second nun-related film I saw at Sundance this year, ‘The Little Hours’ couldn’t possibly be farther on the other end of the spectrum from the other one. The reverence and holiness that fill ‘Novitiate&...
Reading the synopsis of ‘Novitiate’ led me to believe that the drama would be standard “edgy” festival fodder: a young girl enters a monastery to begin the preparatory process of becoming a nun, only to hav...
Have you ever seen a film that attempts to play in the arena of a very specific genre, but doesn’t quite know how to get there? Unfortunately, that’s how ‘Lady Macbeth’ plays out. As a black comedy, it has ...
The unfortunate aspect of attending a film festival is seeing a movie that’s built upon a great concept but needs another few rewrites. Such is the case with ‘Colossal’. The idea behind it is brilliant, but the f...
Trailers and ads have made ‘Raw’ look like a pure gross-out fest that relies on shock value for shares, entertainment or memorability, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth with this French/Belgian film.
I’m quite cynical about Hollywood insider films (including Oscar front-runner ‘La La Land’). The joke used to be that if you wanted to make a film that was certain to get accolades, it had to be about the Holocau...
One of the many perks to attending a big film festival is the chance to see foreign films that offer insight to an aspect of the world that you may never otherwise know exists. By introducing us to the surprisingly lax prison syst...
For the second week, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest not only held onto the top of the box office, but also highly outpaced analyst predictions. Meanwhile, the dog-centric family film performed well, but not well enough to pose ...
Following the Oscar nominations, this weekend is sure to be fueled by moviegoers playing catch-up with as many of the nominees as they can. This doesn’t bode well for the week’s new releases. That’s probably exac...
Many critics have touted the latest M. Night Shyamalan thriller as his return to greatness. Looking at its opening weekend numbers, the box office also tells that story. Meanwhile, Vin Diesel’s latest action flick, the McDon...