We’ve all seen compilations of great director’s student films, so why not an anthology that pays tribute to their work as commercial pitchmen and women? Earlier this week while paging through the stacks at Rarefilmm, ...
by Scott MarksThis week brings a twofer from your friendly neighborhood Bella Thorne completist: Time is Up and Measure of Revenge. Plus a surprise bonus! Time is Up (2021) Swim team contender Roy (Benjamin Mascolo) secretly pines ...
by Scott MarksThis week: Clint Eastwood’s “Magnum” opuses. The Many Dirty Harrys In Coogan’s Bluff, Don Siegel jerked the sheriff out of Dodge, relocating the lawman amidst the contemporary urban sprawl, horse and all. It was the ...
by Scott MarksCocksure blockbuster with a grainy digital image and a jokey juvenile narrative, revolving around good and bad extraterrestrial shape-shifting robots, light as air, loose as smoke, based (if you're too old to know) on a line of Hasbro toys: the ...
by Duncan ShepherdDirector Clint Eastwood goes from flying first class (Sully) to riding the rails in unreserved coach for another real-life tale of transitory heroism. And this time, instead of relying on Oscar-winner Tom Hanks to land his Airbus in the freezing ...
by Scott MarksFollowing a pair of sojourns to the adorable Marigold Hotel, John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) takes a giant step forward with this perfectly timed tale of how to draw and quarter a lobbyist. “She pees standing up,” is how one ...
by Scott MarksIt’s not often that Human Rights Watch sends a narrative feature ou...
This is the true story of several strangers who found out what happ...
The setting is Rakhine State, Myanmar, a land of political repressi...
The front porch has a view to die for, a panorama the man stretched...
Reading over the titular typo that opens his girlfriend Apple’s (Be...
Every decade or so, narrative cinema explores the despondent underb...
A piece of light persiflage, too playful to be truly provocative, a...
We’ve devolved to a point in our paranoid history where remaking a ...
A willing suspension of disbelief (and a high tolerance for fart hu...
A film that lives up to its title. Forgive the prudish tone, but fo...
In my youth, a film such as this was vanquished to the “old people’...
With characters called The Bandit, Mr. Big, and Sheriff Buford T. J...
We’ve all seen compilations of great director’s student films, so why not an anthology that pays tribute to their work as commercial pitchmen and women? Earlier this week while paging through the stacks at Rarefilmm, ...
This week brings a twofer from your friendly neighborhood Bella Thorne completist: Time is Up and Measure of Revenge. Plus a surprise bonus! Time is Up (2021) Swim team contender Roy (Benjamin Mascolo) secretly pines ...
This week: Clint Eastwood’s “Magnum” opuses. The Many Dirty Harrys In Coogan’s Bluff, Don Siegel jerked the sheriff out of Dodge, relocating the lawman amidst the contemporary urban sprawl, horse and all. It was the ...
Cocksure blockbuster with a grainy digital image and a jokey juvenile narrative, revolving around good and bad extraterrestrial shape-shifting robots, light as air, loose as smoke, based (if you're too old to know) on a line of Hasbro toys: the ...
by Duncan ShepherdMathieu Demy's Americano (which he wrote, directed, and stars in) is a loving tribute to his parents, divine cinematic beings Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy. Don't worry, though; even if you can't screen Lola, The Model Shop, and Jacquot de ...
by Scott MarksThe story of Gerda, a struggling portrait painter (Alicia Vikander) who loses a husband but gains a compelling subject — there’s nothing like a broken heart for inspiration! Of course, the losing and gaining are all of a piece, born ...
by Matthew LickonaA out-of-work single mom (Samantha Castillo) goes into homophobic panic when she begins to notice her 9-year-old son, Junior (Samuel Lange Zambrano), picking up certain gender-bending habits: sitting down to pee, fixating on televised beauty contests, and entertaining a fetishitic ...
by Scott Marks