On September 15th (actually a couple days earlier if you were paying attention), Warner Bros. and DC Comics launched the new DC Universe streaming service, promising a one-stop shop for all things DC Comics related, including movi...
The biggest Blu-ray releases this week are a pair of sequels that nobody really asked for and probably weren’t needed. Isn’t that the case with most sequels, though?
High school is a (nearly) universal experience we all have to suffer through, and it’s such a defining time in most of our lives that of course filmmakers would want to mine that ground for screenplay material. Our Roundtable this...
A gentle drama about a hapless art dealer looking to make one last score before retirement, Finnish filmmaker Klaus Härö’s One Last Deal provides a satisfying if not exceptional melodrama about aging, paintings, and the thrill of ...
Mouthpiece finds veteran Canadian filmmaker Patricia Rozema at the top of her game. It’s an emotionally rich and stylistically assured drama that traces one young woman’s coming to terms with the death of her mother.
If we really must live in an era where every popular TV show from 20 or 30 years ago is going to get brought back on the air, at least CBS’ venerable journalism sitcom Murphy Brown actually makes sense to revive in the era of Trum...
The end begins with a thoughtful gift.
With the recent explosion of Mandy on social media and the big screen, the cult of Nic Cage has been given new life. With these “Rage Cage” flicks, it just makes sense to give the actor a character and a rough plot, and let him lo...
Freaks is a highly allegorical tale that combines comic book fantasy, sci-fi tropes, and political metaphor that vacillate between being effective and messy. It’s a work of great ideas where the execution isn’t always up to the am...
In all the years I’ve had surround sound, I’d never given much thought to implementing Front Wide speakers between my main Left and Right channels and the Surround speakers. Recently, however, I gave it some thought. Does anyone h...
Horror fans can be a tough audience to please. Speaking as a lifelong member of that tribe, I know we can be curmudgeons. We complain about remakes and sequels, while also complaining when films don’t offer the fan-service that fr...
Thomas Vinterberg’s Kursk tells the story of the doomed Russian submarine and the foiled attempts to rescue its hapless seamen. It’s a mix of character drama, suspenseful rescue adventure, and political film, with each element vyi...
