New horror thriller “The Night House” gets much right in the first two acts. The film’s use of location in upstate New York is beautifully isolated, the color palette of natural earth tones seen throughout the film demonstrates its attention to aesthetics. The selling point is underrated actress Rebecca Hall, who should have gotten Oscar […]
In his first film since the smash hit “Crazy Rich Asians,” director Jon M. Chu teams with Tony award-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda bringing his Broadway hit “In the Heights” to the big screen. If you like your musicals flashy, long and chaotic, “In the Heights” will certainly satisfy that missing element from the box office. A
This week’s new release is heading straight to streaming video with so many movie theaters currently closed. This one will likely find more viewers on-demand than it would have in a cinema. “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” was one of the Sundance Film Festival’s big finds. Writer and director Eliza Hittman delivers a modern-day look at
A shell of a movie, that’s what documentarian turned feature film director Kitty Green has delivered with The Assistant. What should have been a short film, is prolonged into an excruciating 85 minutes that Emmy Winner Julia Garner (Ozark) can’t steer on her own. Green’s story about a woman working in a film production/distribution company
If you like movies that manufacture migraines, agitate viewers senses and lead you to a state of anxiety, then Uncut Gems is what you have been waiting for. Familiarity with Josh and Benny Safdie is key to managing expectations on Adam Sandler’s latest work. There is no denying that Sandler, along with The Safdie Brothers
Within three minutes of the first frame, the word Avenger is used. 21 Bridges is the first film Black Panther himself Chadwick Boseman has led since putting on the spandex. The directors of Avengers Endgame, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, are also producers on the film. Brian Kirk makes his directorial film debut after a long
In Edward Norton’s sophomore feature as director (his first official writing credit), he takes the audience back to the early 1990s where lite mobster movies were a dime a dozen. The saxophone led original score by Daniel Pemberton (Steve Jobs) transports the viewer back to a different era of filmmaking. The cinematography, editing, and leisurely
The film opens to the song “It’s a Man’s World,” signaling the theme of DC Comics dramatic “mobster movie” adaptation and its gritty 1978 setting. It would be easy to compare this all-female cast to last years “Widows,” but they are entirely different, with very different goals. McCarthy and Haddish both play down their comic roots,
It’s a generational thing as all three “Shaft” men come together in the third installment of the movie series that dates back to the ’70s. Samuel L. Jackson who has built a career on playing Shaft-type characters was the optimal choice to bring the foul-mouthed detective back to the big screen in 2000. “Barbershop” director
The first minutes of dialogue out of Jesse Eisenberg’s mouth, his twitch, that stutter, and you realize he is yet again playing the same character, himself. Oscar-nominated for “The Social Network,” Eisenberg might be one of the most boring actors to watch in mainstream films working today. “The Hummingbird Project” has him playing another facet