film

Who’s Taking Oscar Home? We List Who “Should” Win the Academy Awards

We’ve picked our ponies early, so you know who to keep an eye out as the time draws near to…

6 years ago

Life at the End of the Road Depicted in The Leisure Seeker

Ella and John Spencer (Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland) seem to be nice people: friendly, educated, liberal, with two adult children…

6 years ago

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool: The Best New Movie You Know Nothing About

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool Annette Bening gives a career-defining performance as aging film star who romances a man…

6 years ago

Director Sean Baker Brings Gritty Reality to Screens in “The Florida Project”

Director Sean Baker employs the same raw but expressive style and use of amateur actors that worked so well in…

6 years ago

Is “The Phantom Thread” a Farewell Film From Daniel Day-Lewis?

1950s British couturier Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) is very particular. While this helps him meticulously craft beautiful gowns for his…

6 years ago

Isabelle Huppert Collaborates with Michael Haneke in “Happy End”

There is a brutality to Michael Haneke’s films. It is often literal but it can sometimes be most scathing when…

6 years ago

“Uncle Howard:” Offers a Touching Cinematic Tribute

A young filmmaker creates a cinematic elegy for the hero he lost to the epidemic. To the world, Howard Brookner…

6 years ago

Oscar Talk Swirls Around a New Movie Romance: “Call Me By Your Name”

Come away to the bucolic Italian countryside of 1983, where a young man’s world is budding with discovery and desire.…

6 years ago

PBS Set to Air Armistead Maupin Documentary New Year’s Day

SXSW Audience Award winner The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, directed by Jennifer M. Kroot, (more…)

6 years ago

Film’s New “Brokeback?” See “God’s Own Country”

It would be both accurate and yet also a disservice to refer to this film (as I have sometimes heard…

7 years ago

Review: “Tom of Finland” Scratches the Surface

For the uninitiated, Tom of Finland will put you front and center at the moment Touko Laaksonen decided to become…

7 years ago

All Roads Lead Inward in Director Haynes’ “Wonderstruck”

Director Todd Haynes (Carol), A father of American gay cinema, works his particular brand of cinematic magic again in Wonderstruck.…

7 years ago