Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Ivan Reitman didn’t direct a lot of films, just 20 features over a career that spanned over 40 years. But his imprint on screen comedy was enormous, launching actors to stardom and fellow filmmakers who followed in his irreverent, sweet … Continue reading →

After last year’s Oscars announced the “arrival” of director Lee Isaac Chung, those clever celluloid archivists at Film Movement rounded up the Korean-American filmmaker’s earlier works and released them as DVDs and on Film Movement+. Seeing “Munyurangabo,” “Abigail Harm” and … Continue reading →

Here’s the TV commercial for this summer release. Yup, “Nope” looks cryptic and creepy and big and outdoorsy. Daniel Kaluuya costars, with Steven Yuen and Donna Mills and horror mainstay Michael Wincott. Love that Keke.

Well, at least they kept “the cute.” Some of it, anyway. The sequel to the glib and engaging “Tall Girl,” telling of the trials and tribulations of a towering beauty at her Louisiana high school settled on a theme — … Continue reading →

Recognize him? “High Fidelity” and “Peaky Blinders,” and he was Obama in “The Comey Rule” on TV. He was Malcolm X in “One Night in Miami.” Can he sing? Play guitar? Look great in dreads? Deadline.com broke the story, which … Continue reading →

A phrase that become a Twitter trend during the Trump Era pops to mind when watching “Within the Whirlwind” and recalling what the Russians under Stalin did to their own people to placate the paranoia of a megalomaniac. “The cruelty’s … Continue reading →

Some movies are slow. Some manage a kind of languid torpor. And there’s “Help,” which might be described as “inert.” It’s a disastrously undramatic debut feature from writer-director and bit “character” in the film Blake Ridder, who is also distributing … Continue reading →

A blind teen, a hunter stumbled into, a creature hunting them. March 18.

There aren’t a lot of music clubs that have made the journey from “THE place to be” to “an Institution” with more grace than Ronnie Scott’s, the Frith Street landmark in Soho, London. “Ronnie’s” is a gloriously musical celebration of … Continue reading →

“The Privilege” is a too-predictable German mashup of a couple of horror genres and several paranoid thrillers, all underscored by the big idea in Jordan Peele’s “Get Out.” Hey kids, your elders are taking away your future, and not just … Continue reading →