Movie

  • Rebuilding Paradise

    by - Jul 31, 2020
    On November 8, 2018, the town of Paradise, California, was destroyed by the deadliest fire in the state’s history, razing countless homes and businesses and displacing 50,000 citizens. Rebuilding the place was an agonizing feat of...
  • She Dies Tomorrow

    by - Jul 31, 2020
    “I hate exposition,” writer/director/actress Amy Seimetz said in a 2013 interview with Filmmaker Magazine. This hatred is on display in her first full feature, “Sun Don’t Shine,” where a nightmarish scenario is presented with an almost...
  • Revisiting My 2017 Article, My Daughter Loves Country Music, In Light of Mickey Guyton’s song, Black Like Me

    by - Jul 31, 2020
    “It’s a hard life on easy streetJust white painted picket fences far as you can seeAnd if you think we live in the land of the freeYou should try to be, oh, black like me” —excerpt from...
  • Disney’s Muppets Now Designed for Those Who Loved Them Then

    by - Jul 30, 2020
    Disney’s reboot of Jim Henson’s beloved creation in “Muppets Now” is going to be compared to the classic films and TV show, and in that sense it will come up a little short. However, I’d be lying...
  • Host

    by - Jul 30, 2020
    “Host,” a new horror movie about a haunted Zoom meeting, is decent, as far as high-concept genre exercises go. It’s only 56 minutes long, features some cool practical stuntwork thanks to the team at Lucky 13...
  • The Hater

    by - Jul 29, 2020
    Tomasz (Maciej Musialowski) has what could politely be called gray ethical boundaries. He’s introduced facing down the faculty at the law school he attends, who have caught him plagiarizing and are expelling him. In the next...
  • History is Manifested Through These Individuals: The Fight Directors on Following the ACLU Lawyers Challenging Trump

    by - Jul 29, 2020
    “The Fight” follows lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union as they challenge four Trump administration initiatives that raise issues of inequality: separating families seeking legal immigration, the denial of abortion rights for an undocumented minor...
  • 60 Minutes on: Christopher Reeve as Superman

    by - Jul 28, 2020
    Modern superhero cinema begins with “Superman,” so it’s only fitting that it would kick off with its own version of the Big Bang. It has a momentous quality that somehow never came across as heavy or self-involved. Like...
  • John Saxon: 1935-2020

    by - Jul 28, 2020
    They killed John Saxon again?  That was my first thought upon learning that Saxon (birth name: Carmine Orrico) died from pneumonia over the weekend in his Murfreesboro, Tennessee home. You might remember Saxon, a Stella Adler-trained...
  • SDCC 2020: Women Rocking Hollywood’s Seal of Approval

    by - Jul 27, 2020
    The name of the annual Women Rocking Hollywood panel used to feel more hope than reality, with dismal statistics that barely showed any progress year after year. That has changed now, thanks to #MeToo and Ava DuVernay....