This year was a great year for film, and as the year progressed, I looked back and found that most of the films I loved weren’t the ones necessarily making much at the box office.
Ken Wahl, Donald Pleasance, Lesley Ann Warren, and Goerge Peppard Star in Ozploitation Actioner.
DIRECTED BY DAVID HEMMINGS/1981
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: DEC...
Topical Issues Drive the Finest Cinema of the Past Year
2018 was an interesting year in film. It was a year that didn't pan out the way it was expected....
The Trip to Bountiful does a fine job in evoking a certain postwar southern tension, in both the primary family and its world. The film is once again widely available to remind us that you really can’t go home again- even when you can.
Prep for Awards Shows, a Collector's Show, and Oscar Micheaux
A peek behind the curtain: I'm wrapping up the piece the night before I head out on a cross-co...
Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins Returns With Lush James Baldwin Adaptation
DIRECTED BY BARRY JENKINS/2018
Lovers are almost always inward looking, f...
Whether Alfonso Cuarón is taking us to Mexico City or Frederick Wiseman is taking us to Monrovia, Indiana or Debra Granik is taking us into the woods or Ali Abbasi takes us right up to the Border, there has been no shortage of special trips at the movies in 2018.
Fact of the matter is that Vice really is a clever movie filled with great performances and memorable moments. But it’s really hard to concentrate on those finer qualities when the movie has its busy hands in one’s pants. Indeed, Vice is just so eager to please the hungry legions of leftist cinephiles and critics that it forgets to ever take its head out of its own underside long enough to engage in any real introspection.
Star of TV Comedy and Major Director, Dead at 75.
I confess, I’m still getting to know Penny Marshall.
In my defense, I missed her during her career’...
