Movie

  • 30 Minutes on: “Rampage”

    by - Apr 14, 2018
    The audience I saw “Rampage” with at the Bay Ridge Alpine theater on a Friday night clapped when it was over, and the film deserved it. Dwayne Johnson stars as a primatologist who was once a...
  • There Are No Real Heroes: Brad Anderson on “Beirut”

    by - Apr 13, 2018
    Brad Anderson has made a thrilling directorial career out of tackling many different genres, including the romantic comedy (“Next Stop Wonderland”), the horror-thriller (“Session 9”) and the crime-mystery (“Transsiberian”), along with movies that defy categorization like the...
  • Submergence

    by - Apr 13, 2018
    “Submergence” is based on a rapturously reviewed novel by J.M. Ledgard, about the love affair between a biomathematician named Danielle Flinders, who is fascinated by life at the darkest levels of the ocean, and James More,...
  • Ebertfest 2018 Guests: Part II

    by - Apr 13, 2018
    We are thrilled to announce the amazing guests scheduled to attend Ebertfest 2018, running Wednesday, April 18th, through Sunday, April 22nd, in Champaign, Illinois. Here is the second of two posts compiling the bios of each filmmaker and special...
  • Ebertfest 2018 Guests: Part I

    by - Apr 13, 2018
    We are thrilled to announce the amazing guests scheduled to attend Ebertfest 2018, running Wednesday, April 18th, through Sunday, April 22nd, in Champaign, Illinois. Here is the first of two posts compiling the bios of each filmmaker and...
  • Netflix’s “Lost in Space” Captures Spirit of Original Show For Whole Family

    by - Apr 12, 2018
    I wrote recently about puzzle box shows like “Rellik” and “Westworld,” and how the genre is getting a little exhausted. Sometimes you just want an old-fashioned adventure series, a way to leave behind the worries of...
  • An Impossible Color: Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead on “The Endless”

    by - Apr 12, 2018
    Rotten Tomatoes may be the whipping post for a lot of people nowadays but it’s still worth noting that Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead’s newest film, the fascinating “The Endless,” has 35 reviews on the aggregator,...
  • Tell Your Truth: Chapman & Maclain Way on “Wild Wild Country”

    by - Apr 12, 2018
    The documentary series “Wild Wild Country” is more than just the true story of a religious movement (or cult, if you prefer) that created a utopia named Rajneeshpuram in the small town Oregon of Antelope in the early 1980s,...
  • Cinemax’s “Rellik” Can’t Keep High Concept From Falling Apart

    by - Apr 11, 2018
    I used to be something of a sucker for British procedurals, often falling for even the most mediocre ones, but something has turned in 2018. Part of the problem is that the good old-fashioned British procedural...
  • Hitler’s Hollywood

    by - Apr 11, 2018
    “Hitler’s Hollywood,” which bears the subtitle “German Cinema in the Age of Propaganda: 1933-45,” is the second documentary director Rudiger Suchsland has made about German movies prior to the collapse of the Third Reich. The first,...