Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Aspiring novelists start and abandon many a book about a writer trying to write her or his first novel. Aspiring filmmakers do the same. But as movies cost a lot more than a simple word processing program, those that are … Continue reading →

The best sports movie director of recent times, Ron Shelton, who gave us “Tin Cup,” “Bull Durham” and 1992’s “White Men Can’t Jump,” developed one rule for casting such films after the efforts it took to make a certain future … Continue reading →

Lovely to see these blokes again, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle (I thought he was dead.) and Mark Addy star in an FX series picking up the Sheffield Steel (strippers) story 25 years later.

Jason Momoa IS “The Greatest Showman!” Who knew? With his every peacocking gesture, every grand spreading of his epic arms and epic smile, every flounce, prance, steely-eyed threat — “You want to control the world, I just want to punish … Continue reading →

Boy, talk about dodging a bullet. I almost reviewed “Royalteen: Princess Margrethe” before watching the prequel about a troubled Norwegian girl who moves to a high school that includes members of the Norwegian royal family. Sure, “Royalteen,” the first film, … Continue reading →

A Sundance Film Fest darling comes out July 7, from A24.

Reason #19 you don’t want to sit next to Rodg at the movies. There’s always the chance I’m going to mutter the movie critic’s “quiet part out loud” judgement despite my best efforts not to. “Boy, this has absolutely nothing … Continue reading →

Every now and then, a film comes along that could pass for the quintessence of what we used to mean when we invented the phrase “indie cinema.” That label implies personal stories, an intimacy created between characters and the viewer, … Continue reading →

Laure Calamy and Olivia Cote co star with French speaking Brit queen Kristin Scott Thomas. July 14, a mid summer vacation at the movies.

I wasn’t inclined to truth “Mrs. Chatterjee vs. Norway,” a somewhat soapy and heavy-handed drama about a child welfare case that turns into an international incident as it slow-walks towards the cliche that “No one can love a child as … Continue reading →