In a certain light, all filmmakers–even the most successful–are con artists as heart, convincing investors, a crew, and performers to go along for the ride with...
Gene Kelly likes to sing in it, Spider-Man is known to kiss in it, but moody old melodrama remains the most reliable companion to rain at the movies. This is at...
Midway, directed by Roland Emmerich, is a kinda-remake of a not-very-good movie from 1976 about the impressive World War II battle. For as consequential as the ...
It's nice to have a Christmas movie in theaters. It's also nice to watch two lead performers get to know each other on screen, and appear to genuinely enjoy eac...
Finding the right way to approach Doctor Sleep requires a bizarre amount of extra-textual introspection. Here we have a film that is a sequel to The Shining (an...
I did a lengthy retrospective interview with William Fichtner back in 2015 as part of a local Buffalo, New York publication's "film issue" due to his being rais...
Time and Terminators make fools of us all. Much like the cold-blooded killers that have inhabited it, the sci-fi action franchise seems hellbent in its refusal ...
A futuristic take on class warfare, Alice Waddington’s Paradise Hills is a compellingly strange, visually daring, but ultimately narratively empty directorial d...
“The words to pop songs are about the only literature of advice we have on romantic matters," said an uptight yuppie struggling with matters of the heart in Whi...
A casualty of Harvey Weinstein's downfall, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's thought-to-be awards-contender that was rushed for a lukewarm TIFF reception in 2017 finally se...
