Monthly Archives: June 2020

The Kansas City chain ignored movie going demographics and common sense in deciding to make its theaters COVID and MAGA friendly. “AMC Theater CEO Adam Aron says their cinemas won’t require masks upon reopening because they didn’t “want to be … Continue reading →

A staged Chinese stunt? A cover-up? This one has me intrigued.

This July release gave birth to a trailer that is kind of diffuse and all over the place. Stress? We know. A lot of chefs drink and have bad tempers? We know. Love life issues? Check. Might be good, can’t … Continue reading →

It stars Precious Chong, so of course it’s a dark comedy. That runs in the family.  

“Runner” is the life story of Olympic marathoner Guor Maker (Marial), a South Sudanese refugee who raced in two Olympics, once without a country. In Maker’s tale, first-time documentary director Bill Gallagher finds a story of privation and perseverance, personal … Continue reading →

Airline disaster movies often follow the same narrow formula, no matter what their country of origin. We meet the cross-section-of-society passengers, pick up on their soap operatic/melodramatic lives, meet the flight crew and get a hint or two or three … Continue reading →

“Queen of the Capital” is a softer, cuddlier version of the landmark drag queen documentary, “Paris is Burning.” It’s a new film about the drag queen scene in Washington, D.C. Where the 1990 film revealed New York’s drag queens as … Continue reading →

Having judged student films at many a film festival, I figured I knew one when I saw one. The good ones show a certain polish — craftsmanship — an attention to things significantly less important than script, casting or performances. … Continue reading →

The tone is set with the odd, edgy “meet cute” for the young lovers. It’s on an Australian train platform where the tattooed, punk druggy bumps the girl in her school uniform aside so he can get close enough to … Continue reading →

The air traffic control code for a hijacking in progress is “7500,” “seven five zero zero,” a fact that comes out in a white-knuckle-tense thriller that marks a return to the screen for Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He plays the bloodied, wounded … Continue reading →