Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Most every cinema culture has produced movies guaranteed to make you cry — films about untimely death, a life that shrinks in old age, small tragedies and ones as great as the Holocaust. But for sheer sadness, the deflating gloom … Continue reading →

I stopped to take a photo of this 1990s Jeep Cherokee because it appears to be the doorless afterlife of one of the two I owned in the ’90s and early 2000s. Then I remembered that a dark blue version … Continue reading →

Every now and then, wonderful Wasikowska returns to her native Oz for a picture. This New Year’s release, based on a beloved Aussie novel, is about saving the grouper. One grouper, in particular. As somebody who interviewed Young Ms. Mia … Continue reading →

“God’s Country” is a the most interesting fall drama that you will never let yourself love. “Adult” in the grownup sense, thought-provoking, hot button-hitting and unpredictably predictable, it makes a fascinating showcase for Thandiwe Newton and invites more than one … Continue reading →

This trailer, from the screenwriter of the much loved and critically dismissed “Bohemian Rhapsody,” pushes buttons and leans in the music to remind us what a “once-in-a-generation” voice Whitney Houston had. Naomi Ackie plays Whitney, Tamara Tunie is mother Cissy … Continue reading →

Journeyman indie filmmaker Wayne Wang had already enjoyed a break-out indie hit (“Chan is Missing”) and followed it with “Slam Dance” and “Dim Sum” when he and Spencer Nakasako set out for Hong Kong in the late ’80s to capture … Continue reading →

“To the Moon” is a psychological/psychedelic thriller that has a lot of trouble coming together and more trouble getting to its fairly obvious point. Writer, director and co-star Scott Friend’s movie leaves “clues” hanging, drags out it supposed mystery and … Continue reading →

The polite, kind and considerate are forever at the disadvantage when dealing with boorish, brutish bullies. That’s the message in “Speak No Evil,” a taut, pitiless Danish/Dutch thriller that unfolds as a series of cringe-worthy moments, one right after the … Continue reading →

A sinister, seductive thriller, this one opens in the US Oct. 14.

As some John le Carré  fanatic has uploaded “Smiley’s People” to Youtube (Does Paramount still own this series?), I’ve allowed myself the luxury of revisiting it for the first time since it aired on British and US TV in 1982. … Continue reading →