‘Graduation’ Review: Painful Parenting
‘Graduation’ isn’t a horror film or a thriller. It’s a particularly quiet drama. However, in its own small and satisfying way, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s film is the most unsettling and tense...
‘Graduation’ isn’t a horror film or a thriller. It’s a particularly quiet drama. However, in its own small and satisfying way, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s film is the most unsettling and tense...
With the cultural acceptance of transgender rights shifting almost by the hour, the time feels right for a documentary like ‘Finding Kim’. It’s a heartwarming tale of one 50-year-old’s journey to finally be...
Movie monsters tend to move in cycles. We just got out of a soapy vampire romance trend, so the time has come for the undead blood suckers to become moody and unsettling creatures again. First-time writer/director Michael O’...
Warner Bros.’ attempt to get in on the Marvel comic book universe game has been off to a rocky start. While the first few DCU movies have their supporters, the detractors are legion and vocal, tired of the studio’s ins...
Can a movie exist primarily around the hilarity of seeing a middle-aged cartoon man wearing underoos? Yes, apparently it can. It’s called ‘Captain Underpants’. It comes from a successful series of children’...
For years, Errol Morris has offered one of the most unique cinematic voices in documentaries or any other genre. His latest film, ‘The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography’, starts as a specific study of a...
Danish writer/director Thomas Vinterberg is best known for his searing dramas and dark comedies such as ‘The Celebration’ or ‘The Hunt’, which force audiences into painfully awkward corners of the human exp...
Countless hard luck boxing dramas have been released since ‘Rocky’ and most aren’t worth the pain of suffering through. ‘Chuck’ is the latest and thankfully proves to be an exception to the rule. The ...
For years, Eleanor Coppola promised to make a movie that wasn’t a documentary about one of her husband Francis’ productions. The whole Coppola clan have talked about it. They said there was a script and it was great. T...
It’s almost impossible to remember a time when a ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie qualified as a pleasant surprise hinged on an eccentric Johnny Depp performance that audiences couldn’t get enough of. That ...
‘Baywatch’ was a cultural institution in the early 1990s. The TV show was syndicated worldwide and helped usher a generation of young boys through puberty while also keeping a generation of adult males firmly trapped i...
‘Urban Hymn’ starts as a riveting and realistic exploration of teens struggling and fighting their way through a hard world that doesn’t want them. It feels raw and true and intriguing. Then one of the girls is a...