‘The Salesman’ is a small and powerful film that likely wouldn’t have registered to many viewers beyond those already intrigued by Iranian cinema or the work of Asghar Farhadi (‘A Separation’). Then a...
Remember in 2015 when Al Pacino made that embarrassing comedy ‘Danny Collins’ in which he played an aging rock star learning how to love again? No? Doesn’t surprise me. It was terrible. I wish I could forget it t...
Super Bowl weekend tends to take its toll on the box office, so it’s no surprise that this one is another dumping ground for hopeless movies that likely wouldn’t make much more dough over some other weekend that offere...
Considering that the movie has been through four release dates and hinges on dead technology, you’ll likely be incredibly unsurprised to hear that ‘Rings’ isn’t a particularly good film. Matter of fact, it&...
Never in a million light years did I imagine that John Carpenter’s cuddly romantic sci-fi romp ‘Starman’ would be responsible for not one but two homages within a 12-month span – first with Jeff Nichols’ br...
In ‘The Guard‘, writer/director John Michael McDonagh made an adorably Irish twist on the bad cop genre. That film did rather well, so now he’s been allowed to cross the ocean and serve up more of the same with a...
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...
