Although I was unable to attend South by Southwest in person this year, I’ll hop aboard the hot 2024 publicist-thanking…
Film
While the historical-clips-plus-talking-heads style of this documentary may be conventional, its subject was anything but: namely FLOTUS Lady Bird Johnson’s…
“You can’t stop the production just because somebody dies.” So says Pinny Grylls, co-director of the singular (and 2024 SXSW…
From the earliest Gen Con wargaming clubs in the 1960s to the Freaks and Geeks and Stranger Things kids rolling…
Though not technically a musical, writer/director Fawzia Mirza’s The Queen of My Dreams is peppered with engaging song and dance…
Everyone obviously has a different idea of what constitutes a perfect day, but it is unlikely that anyone other than…
Prescient direction by Noora Niasari and actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi’s intuitive reach for her character’s touchpoints prevent a predictable plot…
It was love at first sight in 1990 when I first began visiting (and occasionally living in) Austin, TX —…
While it maybe never a good idea to go to a movie on an empty stomach unless you plan to…
“The Teachers’ Lounge” is Germany’s submission for Best International Feature Film to the 2024 Academy Awards, and just a few…
1. AMERICAN FICTION Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, writer/director Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is a quietly…
Chances are that at some point in your youth a Godzilla film scared the hell out of you. From the…
Who is the monster in any highly-charged random scenario? In the case of Kore-eda Hirokazu’s latest film, “Monster,” it could…
The past lives referred to in writer/director Celine Song’s emotionally complex and delicate debut feature, “Past Lives,” are not only…