‘Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World’ Revi
“The internet, man. It’s a blessing and a curse, isn’t it? Like, we’re all so much more connected these days, but don’t you feel like it’s also pushing us apart? Isn’t that crazy?” C...
“The internet, man. It’s a blessing and a curse, isn’t it? Like, we’re all so much more connected these days, but don’t you feel like it’s also pushing us apart? Isn’t that crazy?” C...
Florence Foster Jenkins was a horrible singer. One of the worst who ever opened her mouth and let out noises. But she didn’t know that and everyone around her (including a few folks at recording studios) didn’t think i...
It’s not easy to make a movie about stock market deals cinematically compelling, but a few folks have made it work. Obviously, ‘The Big Short’ and ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ did pretty well recently, a...
It was inevitable that Bryan Cranston would find himself playing a collection of cardboard gangster types following the success of ‘Breaking Bad’. That’s just how typecasting works. At least it took a while befor...
I’ll bet you thought Hollywood stopped making movies about talking cats because… you know… no one likes them. Well, you’re wrong. Not only do talking cat movies still get made, now they star Kevin Spacey and Christophe...
This summer has been quite congested, but it’s also been pretty uneventful. Lots of mediocre movies have opened on the heels of others. It’s unfortunate that, even when we get decent movies, they’re released so c...
Any actor will tell you that playing the villain is way more fun than playing the hero. Even better is to play an antihero, which lets you have all the fun of acting like a total bastard and yet the audience still roots for you to...
‘How He Fell in Love’ wants to be a complicated adult love story about selfish people who do wrong in the name of feeling right. Fair enough. There are quite a few of those stories. They can be interesting and enlighte...
Given the way that Marvel and Disney own the comic book movie market, DC and Warner Bros. are desperate to catch up. This weekend, they throw a Hail Mary with a first-of-its-kind supervillian team-up flick. At the same time, there...
You can say this about ‘Suicide Squad’: For a mediocre comic book blockbuster, it at least has a good hook and a strong cast. That was clear when it was announced and that’s what the pop-music-backed trailers pro...
In a summer full of explosions, swears, and giant CGI entertainment comes a little bit of Japanese counterprogramming that couldn’t be further from the blockbuster norm. That’s just not how director Hirokazu Kore-eda w...
Growing up is tough. It’s so haaaaaard to come of age. Now, imagine trying to come of age in the unenlightened and repressive decade of the 1950s. Whoo-boy! That ain’t easy, folks.