Issa Lopez was an archaeologist before she was a filmmaker, and it’s clear she took notes. Her latest, “Tigers Are…
Film
An inordinate amount of drama happens within a week or two immediately after a wedding ceremony and celebration in the…
Even just a light, entertaining summer movie, like the newly released, “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” gets a bit elevated thanks…
The most obvious thing that “Good Boys” is missing is calmness. Also, bleakness and self-seriousness. In other words, it’s tremendous…
At least among a younger generation, the absurd true story of legendary carmaker John DeLorean isn’t as well known as…
When you see Guillermo del Toro‘s name attached to anything, even as a producer, it’s hard not to get excited….
Jennifer Kent’s sophomore feature–her last film was the terrifically taught “Babadook”– opens with a close-up. If you look closely, it’s…
“Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbes and Shaw” is as overwrought as its title. It’s also overlong, overblown and over-the-top. That’s…
Don’t meet your heroes is how the old saying goes. They’ll just let you down. Well, The Peanut Butter Falcon…
In February 2014, a pastor named Jamie Coots from Kentucky died from a rattlesnake bite during his sermon. By the…
Remember when actors sold movies? Quentin Tarantino does. The director’s ninth feature–presumably his second to last– is a love poem…
“The Art of Self Defense” is a gender case studies that doesn’t feel like homework. In other words, your psychology…
In the West Village of New York, numerous blocks down from the uber trafficked and demonstratively commercialized Time Square/Mid-town area,…
What is a movie? Your film studies professor might have limited their definition to “a video moving at 24 frames…