Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

“Uproar” is a sweetly-uplifting coming-of-age dramedy set against a fraught moment in the history of New Zealand. It’s about a sensitive teen trying to find his place in a rugby-obsessed culture, and a member of the Māori minority struggling with identity … Continue reading →

Long before he became the German filmmaker whose somber, ironic narrations and bleakly beautiful and humanistic documentaries turned Werner Herzog into a pop culture icon, he was a cult figure among international cinema fans. In his early years of fame, … Continue reading →

Wes Anderson went a long ways towards “rescuing” the reputation of the dark and twisted fiction writer Roald Dahl from his “children’s author” image with his gloriously cast and production-designed-to-death short film version of “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.” … Continue reading →

Russell Crowe plays a cop remembering things that might best remain forgotten in a more sturdy-than-inspiring thriller about a murder, a wrongly-accused death row inmate and more than one suspect who’d prefer to let “Sleeping Dogs” lie. Based on a … Continue reading →

“The Last Exit” isn’t the most evocative title for a home invasion thriller. But “Little Bone Lodge,” the earlier release label on this Joely Richardson genre picture, might have been a tad too on the nose. It’s a solid “You … Continue reading →

Lindsay Lohan’s not exactly an old pro at rom-coms. But as she’s a producer on her new film, one would have hoped she’d do the homework that would tell her how they function, what pay-offs they need to deliver and … Continue reading →

A slap happy farce from the former “Star Trek” star, playing a pool cleaner with private detective and Hollywood screenplay dreams. DeWanda Wise, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Ortiz and Ray Wise are also in the cast. Frenetic trailer, a couple … Continue reading →

Years of lobbying against digital dogs and cats in live action movies go out the door when one takes in the French-Canadian farce “Cat and Dog,” with its many slapstick animal-abusing moments. I mean, thank heavens “No (digitally animated) dogs … Continue reading →

Oscar winners Whoopi Goldberg and Robert DeNiro, along with Rose Byrne, Vera Farmiga and Rainn Wilson signed on for this summer release, directed by Tony Goldwyn. William A. Fitzgerald has the title role. We know a lot more about autism … Continue reading →

The French thriller “The Animal Kingdom” is set in an alternate reality where humans are starting to transition into animals of various species — snakes and lizards to walruses and birds. The authorities treat this as a contagion that must … Continue reading →