Monthly Archives: January 2024

For the 96th time, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is about to announce the field for their upcoming Academy Awards. We’ll learn about them online, on Youtube, or via the old-fashioned ABC “Good Morning America” way (That’s still … Continue reading →

One of the most versatile filmmakers who ever lived, a director at home with hot-button subjects (“In the Heat of the Night,” “A Soldier’s Story”), musicals (“Fiddler on the Roof,” “Jesus Christ Superstar”), intimate dramas (“The Cincinnati Kid,” “Agnes of … Continue reading →

Brazilian critic turned filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho made a smart, thoughtful documentary about films and criticism (“Critico”) some years back, and made a film festival darling that was Brazil’s submission as Best International Feature in 2014, “Neighboring Sounds,” a drama … Continue reading →

Well, this looks to send up Britain’s mania for its pre Arthurian past, does it not? Lots of lesser known outside the UK funny folk also in the cast, but that’s a good thing. April 5 in Python Land.

This has “festival darling” written all over it. Little-known (nepo baby included) cast headed by Zosia Mamet and Aristotle Athari, celebrated for being candy-colored, cute sci-fi on a budget. And chatty — “When Harry Met Sally” chatty. That’s the comparison … Continue reading →

Watching any mainstream Hollywood film of the mid-to-late ’60s is like wading into The Land of the Lost. A half century after the annointing of that corner of the Left Coast as the cinema’s capital and global arbiter of “cool,” … Continue reading →

The new German thriller “Sixty Minutes” lives or dies on the back of its brutal, sometimes bloody brawls, which push mixed martial arts mayhem in the movies to a new level. The beatdowns, punchups and kickdowns are savagely-staged and breathlessly-photographed … Continue reading →

Ms. Ridley co-stars with Dave Merheje in this Rachel Lambert dramedy (?), whose biggest selling point is that Oscilloscope Labs has it. And we never go far wrong with their releases. Jan. 26.

“Trunk: Locked-in” is a tense and paranoid “work the problem” thriller about a woman struggling to get out of the Audi trunk she’s been drugged and stuffed into, desperately reaching out via cell phone for help from family, the authorities … Continue reading →