Can you believe that still to this day I’ve not seen one episode or one Star Trek movie, that’s quite some record as I always batted for Team Star Wars but after flicking through a few pages of this book,…
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As Social Media ages past the 2000s, when it begins, it will morph into a farcical mess. There have been several films that have alluded to this situation. Still, no one quite revels in it the way Travis Bible and…
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TELLURIDE – Considering the success and adoration of “Sideways,” it’s surprising it took Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti this long to find another film to make together. Almost 20 years later, the director and actor have reteamed for “The Holdovers,”…
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TELLURIDE – Every year, almost without fail, there is an American hero, somehow lost to history, who finally gets their moment on the big screen. This year’s honoree is Bayard Rustin, a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement who…
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A scene early in Ibrahim Nash’at’s chilling new documentary “Hollywoodgate” makes clear the stakes of Nash’at’s undertaking. Invited by the Taliban to film a top leader, the new air force commander Malawi Mansour, and a lower-ranking Taliban Mukhtar, after the…
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Time is a relative construct stretched to the limits of elasticity by Saverio Constanzo with the period drama “Finally Dawn.” The bloated 140-minute runtime begins at a cinema in Rome in 1953 as three women watch the final scene of…
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Early in his new film “The Pigeon Tunnel,” Errol Morris creates one of the most vivid images of a career packed with them: a man in a suit walking through a meadow filled with mirrors. He’s always had a gift…
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It’s so good to have these three together and knowing it’ll be their last series together I’ll make the most of every second. Here is our Gordon Gino and Fred Viva Espana review. Credit – ITV Having traversed some of…
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Part crime film, part Spaghetti Western, The Equalizer 3 feels like the final installment for Robert McCall’s (a taciturn and stoic Denzel Washington) adventures, well, equalizing life for innocent business people. Based on the glorious 80’s action series, The Equalizer…
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While it was difficult for the world to discern at the time, and maybe even now, to the legendary, notorious absurdist comedian Andy Kaufman, comedy was an art, and the act of performance was an act worth living in beyond…
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Mads Mikkelsen has proved time and again a master at playing quiet, rational, and seemingly harmless men who, when pushed, swiftly reveal themselves also to be skilled executioners; their pent-up rage does not bubble up so much as shoot out…
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TELLURIDE- Despite a varied resume that includes art-house Sci-Fi, a classic coming-of-age tale, and a haunting drama on racial injustice, we weren’t sure Jeff Nichols had it in him to make a movie such as “The Bikeriders.” After its world…
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