Aside from the time Warner Bros. poured a fortune into the first two Christopher Reeve “Superman” movies, superhero films languished…
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Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” chronicles an epic battle for control of a fully immersive, massively multiplayer online virtual reality…
I recently shared my Top Five favorite films of the 2018 South-by-Southwest festival, but what about the other screenings I…
The 2018 South-by-Southwest Film Festival featured 130+ movies over the course of nine days, making it literally impossible for anyone…
For those more accustomed to the light touch and whimsical ways of director Cédric Kaplisch (“L’auberge Espagnole” and “Russian Dolls”),…
“Ismael’s Ghosts” is director Arnaud Desplechin’s sixth outing with actor Mathieu Amalric. With such fantastic works as “My Sex Life……
As the title would suggest, this is a cold, somewhat hard-to-watch film in which the two main characters are bitter…
“Analysis paralysis” is slang for an inability to make a decision. When the condition becomes chronic, it’s known as aboulomania….
This stunning drama from the Middle East called “The Insult,” could have been titled ‘A Simple Apology,’ with the conflict,…
It’s not an unfamiliar story about 1950s film studio era diva Gloria Grahame that screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh offers, and it’s…
By now, Bay Area folks might be feeling the urge for a film festival: the San Francisco International fest doesn’t…
Honestly, nothing I saw at the movies this year came close to any two episodes of “Twin Peaks: The Return”…
It’s not just dispiriting to hear Donald Trump declare that the press is the enemy of the people: it’s downright…
Italian director Luca Guadagnino who has quickly and deservedly achieved much acclaim and auteur status after just a few films,…