The Beksińskis. A Sound and Picture Album is a documentary based on a book by Magdalena Grzebałkowska, which is based on the life of painter Zdzislaw Beksinski. A collection of home videos, news footage, diary entries, and essays,...
Lost Holiday seems to fancy itself some sort of crime drama or buddy comedy. I’m not saying that it’s neither, but it does seem to suffer from a lack of passion in its characters, just as those characters suffer from a...
Irene Dunne and Cary Grant were a match made in movie heaven. Thanks to their peerless talent – and the brilliance of director Leo McCarey – The Awful Truth stands as one of Hollywood’s funniest and smartest screwball comedi...
Impetus is nearly impossible to categorize – not because it defies genre, rather it tries to occupy too many of them at once. Fiction, biography, autobiography, documentary and metatextuality all factor heavily into this self-indu...
Blinded by the Light is a tribute to the power of the Boss. The film dramatically illustrates how Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics and power of storytelling can cross oceans and speak to those far removed from the original context...
Barry and the team get incepted on The Flash this week, using silly technology to enter someone else’s dreams. Well, technically they’re supposed to be memories, but I still feel like Christopher Nolan deserves a royal...
Honey Boy is a semi-autobiographical tale written by one of the most provocative actors of his generation. Shia LaBeouf has gone from child actor to blockbuster star, fostered by the likes of Steven Spielberg to appear in mega-fra...
Poetic and profound, Joe Talbot’s feature debut The Last Black Man in San Francisco tells a story of an ever-changing city where waves of gentrification have for generations defined just who gets to call the city home.
Hurry Slowly is the rare film that focuses its attention on the quiet times leading up to a major life change, and not the change itself. It’s slow, contemplative, and methodical in its examination of one young woman’s...
When the 2019 Oscar nominations were announced last week, some awards purists were left aghast that a comic book superhero movie like Black Panther could be nominated for Best Picture. Normally I’d say it has no chance of wi...
It’s been a while since I last provided an update on my ongoing attempt to expand my home theater beyond the conventional channel limits allowed by Dolby Atmos or DTS:X. Never satisfied, I’ve now crammed 17 speakers in...
Many of Alex Gibney’s documentaries feel heavy-handed and use questionable methods to sway viewers, including misleading statistics and manipulative scoring to hammer their points home. It’s quite refreshing that his l...
