Movie

  • Growth in Discomfort: Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall on Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

    - Aug 29, 2022
    “I love the theatre!” exclaims a young churchgoer in writer/director Adamma Ebo’s debut feature, “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.,” based on her brilliant 2018 short film of the same name. It turns out that what...
  • The Invitation

    - Aug 27, 2022
    During these last, lazy days of summer, there isn’t a whole lot to do. Still, you’re probably going to want to RSVP “no” to “The Invitation.” It had such potential, too. Director and co-writer Jessica M....
  • Me Time

    - Aug 26, 2022
    You have to hand it to Kevin Hart for his prolificacy at the very least, keeping the middle-brow, upper-middle-budget studio comedy going on his own terms. After the tortured (but admittedly, quite watchable) “The Man From...
  • Trevante Rhodes Captivates in Hulu’s Mike but the Show Loses the Fight

    - Aug 26, 2022
    “Every time I thought something was wrong, I f**ked it up even more.” That about sums up the life of Mike Tyson. There was something about the champ that made every bad situation into something much, much...
  • Three Thousand Years of Longing

    - Aug 25, 2022
    In a much-bruited scene in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 film “Pierrot le Fou,” the sui generis American filmmaker Sam Fuller turns up at a party and is asked by Jean-Paul Belmondo to define cinema. He says: “A...
  • Little Demon Struggles to Fulfill on Potential of Its Concept and Cast

    - Aug 25, 2022
    Adult animation is an incredibly difficult art form. For every hit like “Archer” or “Rick & Morty,” there are a few disasters like “Hoops” or “Farzar.” The team behind FXX’s latest grown-up cartoon, as well as its notably...
  • Video Interview: Leah Purcell on The Legend of Molly Johnson

    - Aug 24, 2022
    “The Legend of Molly Johnson” is set in 1893 on an isolated property, where a heavily pregnant woman named Molly Johnson (Leah Purcell) and her children struggle to survive the harsh Australian landscape. Her husband is...
  • Home Entertainment Guide: August 2022

    - Aug 24, 2022
    10 NEW TO HBO MAX “Belfast””Belle””Blow Out””Blue Velvet””Ex Machina””The Exorcist””JFK””Pulp Fiction””Sideways””Under the Skin” 10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Eyes Wide Shut””Ferris Bueller’s Day Off””Flight””The Hunt for Red October””Men in Black””The Nice Guys””Skyfall””Spider-Man 2″”The Town””Uncharted” 10 NEW TO...
  • Saints Row Reboots B-Movie Chaos of Hit Games but Can’t Break Free of Its Own Excess

    - Aug 23, 2022
    The “Saints Row” games have always been about chaos. From the first game, released in 2006, to the fourth, dropped in 2013, these games were like the punk rock younger brother of the “Grand Theft Auto”...
  • Netflix’s Mo Keeps the Faith For Insightful Muslim-American Stories

    - Aug 23, 2022
    Near the end of his 2021 special “Mohammed in Texas,” Palestinian-American comedian Mohammed Amer quips, “Houston is the city that raised me, and Netflix is the label that pays me.” It’s the kind of blunt, self-deprecating...