Timely pregnancy drama Invisible offers no easy answers
With Ireland voting overwhelmingly to repeal its near-total ban on abortions last month and women’s reproductive rights being slowly c... Continue Reading
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The Disaster Artist is a great movie about a bad one
Hollywood has been obsessed with movies about movies since the silent era, and though there is always the concern that a navel gazing Tinsel... Continue Reading
Movie magic comes alive at the National Air and Space Museum
I was only eight years old when I saw Stanley Kubrick’s mind-bending masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time. And though ... Continue Reading
The Florida Project milks magic from mayhem
When it comes to truly edgy underground filmmakers, it’s hard to top writer-director Sean Baker. His 2012 film Starlet profiled the un... Continue Reading
Thor: Ragnarok is cheeky, camp classic in the making
If Mad Magazine and the 80’s camp classic Flash Gordon had a baby it would probably look and sound a lot like Thor: Ragnarok. Fun, goo... Continue Reading
Three Billboards is powerhouse drama writ large
This year’s Academy Award nominations are still a couple of weeks away but after taking home awards for Best Picture – Drama, Be... Continue Reading
It isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn may have been the most popular girls’ costumes this past Halloween, but Pennywise the clown from It was ... Continue Reading
Minivan momma takes the wheel in Kidnap
Although she has appeared in more than 50 movies and TV shows over the past 28 years, and is still, sadly, the only African American woman t... Continue Reading
Oscar season starts early with pitch-perfect Elis
Telenova superstar Andréia Horta (Liberdade, Chamas da Vida) might not be a household name outside of her native Brazil just yet, but if her... Continue Reading
Plan B is high octane homage to retro action epics
While the terms German-language martial arts action comedy have rarely, if ever, been used in the same sentence, German-language martial art... Continue Reading
IFE Film Review: Chris Evans shines in indie family drama Gifted
If you include his stint as Johnny Storm (aka The Human Torch) in the original Fantastic Four films, Captain America star Chris Evans has be... Continue Reading
20th Century Women lingers like a dreamy, SoCal sunset
Although the term gets bandied about more often than it probably should in kombucha-swilling hipster circles these days, writer-director Mik... Continue Reading
Martial arts-monster mash-up The Great Wall is great
When I first heard that the the biggest director in China – Zhang Yimou, the Fifth Generation master behind such Oscar-nominated class... Continue Reading
Shyamalan returns to form with scary-good Split
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s memorable quote about there being “no second acts in American lives” usually goes double in Hollywoo... Continue Reading
Parenting woes prove universal in We Used to be Cool
I wouldn’t consider myself an expert on the subject, but as a father of an eight-year-old girl who has sat through his fair share of c... Continue Reading
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