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 ...
The back-to-back busy weekends continue with three big new movies arriving in theaters. While this could be a hectic weekend at the box office, I have a feeling that things won’t go too well for any of the three.
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...
A trio of sci-fi classics from the 1980s and ’90s are about to get freshly remastered and reissued in new SteelBook cases. Considering that all of them previously appeared on Blu-ray before (at least two of them even had ear...
Just about the only thing better than watching giant monsters duke it out in your home theater is watching giant monsters duke it out in your home theater for free. We have a spare Blu-ray copy of ‘Kong: Skull Island‘,...
As the ‘Twin Peaks’ pendulum swings wildly from one extreme to another, this week’s episode focuses heavily on the type of David Lynchian quirky comedy that has been in short supply through most of this revival s...
Fourteen years after winning a Best Director Oscar for ‘Ordinary People’, Robert Redford almost struck gold once again (four Oscar nominations but no wins) with ‘Quiz Show’. The movie is arguably the most a...
Even though this isn’t yet the final season of ‘Game of Thrones’ (eight are planned in all), almost all of HBO’s marketing for the series has shifted to emphasize that the end is near and we’re in the...
