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.
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....
Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins Returns With Lush James Baldwin Adaptation
DIRECTED BY BARRY JENKINS/2018
Lovers are almost always inward looking, f...
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’...
The Title Sounds Like an Invitation. The Film is a Sentence.
DIRECTED BY ROBERT ZEMECKIS/2018
While Welcome to Marwen might come from the director o...
Overstuffed and Flailing, DC’s Latest Doesn’t Leave a dry Seat in the House.
DIRECTED BY JAMES WAN/2018
Somewhere in the Ocean of Superhero Movies......
Bumblebee Puts the Transformers Franchise on the Right Road.
DIRECTED BY TRAVIS KNIGHT / 2018
I really want to be kind to Bumblebee despite the fact ...
Mary Poppins Returns With a Marvelous, Mystical, Classical Musical
DIRECTED BY ROB MARSHALL/2018
I suspect many others will call Mary Poppins Returns “practi...
