Daily Archives: March 4, 2019

Next Screening? It’s “Captain Marvel” time

I’ll let you know how it goes. I think the embargo’s off Tuesday AM.

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Movie Review: “Babylon” is back, a classic slice of Jamaican-London-dub reggae life

Here’s a bracing blast from the past, a time capsule of Jamaican London and the prehistory of hip hop via its dub reggae birth parent. Franco Rosso’s “Babylon,” a 1980 near-classic that had little in the line of a real … Continue reading

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Movie Review: The Multiverse reaches its nexus in “Tangent Room”

Four academics, experts in their fields, have been summoned to a dingy, cedar-paneled basement office in a remote Chilean astronomic observatory. Each was exceedingly flattered by the invitation, by a famous scientist legendary for his secrecy. But when the door … Continue reading

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Netflix “disrupting” the Oscars — Is Spielberg right?

Netflix has responded to Steven Spielberg’s reported efforts to ensure that the Academy Awards, for over 90 years the showcase for honoring the best THEATRICAL motion pictures the world experiences in MOVIE THEATERS, makes Netflix play by the same rules … Continue reading

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