The latest narrative film about a musician – Bob Marley: One Love – ultimately plays out more as a celebration of Bob Marley than as a...
Madame Web, 2024. Directed by S.J. Clarkson.Starring Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, Adam Scott, Zosia Mamet, José...
Admit it – you were hoping for a car crash. The trailers were terrible, teasing subpar special effects and expository dialogue so deliciously clunky (“he was...
IMG via Michael K. Short Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is one of the most frequently adapted novels of all time. From James Whale’s monumentally iconic Universal works,...
Today’s post starts with three new disc reviews, including… Stuart’s take on the Film Focus: George Peppard box set from Imprint, which includes John Guillermin’s P.J....
February 12, 2024 I had high hopes for “Lisa Frankenstein,” whose trailers promised a lead performance from Kathryn Newton (of the gleefully twisted body-switch horror-comedy “Freaky”)...
Bloody Escape -Jigoku no Tōsōgeki- is a film of tremendous highs and lows on nearly every level. On the one hand, its world is wonderfully over-the-top....
Alexander Payne’s latest movie, The Holdovers, which opens throughout Israel on February 8, is getting major Oscar buzz and it’s the kind of character-driven, low-key...
Shingo Matsamura’s gripping drama “The Lump In My Heart” about a student who is challenged by a life-changing diagnosis is based on a script adapted from...
Beautiful, meaningful but also too arty Patiparn Boontarig studied film and photography at Thammasat University in Thailand and completed the Asian Film Academy at the Busan...
