Over the course of three films, Joe Swanberg and Jake Johnson took important artistic and personal steps reflected in the next phases of their careers.
Read more
Nestled within the dramatic conducting sequences and prosthetic noses of “Maestro” is a quiet moment of grief so understated that it almost feels like it was an accident that it was included in the first place.
Read more
I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the last couple of weeks trying to understand why I haven’t been able […]
Read more
Our mini-reviews of “The Ghost Station,” “Snow White’s Christmas Adventure,” “The Inner Cage,” and more home-viewing picks.
Read more
Craig R. Baxle’s holiday B-movie (also known as “I Come In Peace”) mixes action, sci-fi, and Christmas cheer, to entertaining effect.
Read more
Three recent variations on Mary Shelley’s classic novel finally capture the passionate feminist perspective the author embodied.
Read more
Our mini-reviews of “Vengeance: Rise of the Footsoldier,” “Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer,” “Fast Charlie,” and more.
Read more
Our mini-reviews of ‘The Christmas Classic,’ ‘El Sabor de la Navidad,’ ‘Christmas with Jerks,’ ‘Nightmare on 34st Street,’ and more direct-to-video holiday fare.
Read more
In boarding school dramas like ‘Dead Poets Society,’ ‘Tea and Sympathy,’ ‘The Emperor’s Club,’ and the new ‘The Holdovers,’ filmmakers deftly explore the complications of upper-class abandonment.
Read more
This week’s round-up of new titles on VOD includes “Sick Girl,” “The Most Remote Restaurant in the World,” “Boudica: Queen of War,” and more.
Read more
Joe Bob Briggs creates the ultimate celebration of B-movie culture for three days at a Las Vegas drive-in theater.
Read more
Our mini-reviews of “The Plus One,” “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” “Caddy Hack,” and more of this week’s straight-to-home fare.
Read more