TELLURIDE – Every year, almost without fail, there is an American hero, somehow lost to history, who finally gets their moment on the big screen. This year’s honoree is Bayard Rustin, a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement who…
Read moreA scene early in Ibrahim Nash’at’s chilling new documentary “Hollywoodgate” makes clear the stakes of Nash’at’s undertaking. Invited by the Taliban to film a top leader, the new air force commander Malawi Mansour, and a lower-ranking Taliban Mukhtar, after the…
Read moreTime is a relative construct stretched to the limits of elasticity by Saverio Constanzo with the period drama “Finally Dawn.” The bloated 140-minute runtime begins at a cinema in Rome in 1953 as three women watch the final scene of…
Read moreEarly in his new film “The Pigeon Tunnel,” Errol Morris creates one of the most vivid images of a career packed with them: a man in a suit walking through a meadow filled with mirrors. He’s always had a gift…
Read moreIt’s so good to have these three together and knowing it’ll be their last series together I’ll make the most of every second. Here is our Gordon Gino and Fred Viva Espana review. Credit – ITV Having traversed some of…
Read morePart crime film, part Spaghetti Western, The Equalizer 3 feels like the final installment for Robert McCall’s (a taciturn and stoic Denzel Washington) adventures, well, equalizing life for innocent business people. Based on the glorious 80’s action series, The Equalizer…
Read moreWhile it was difficult for the world to discern at the time, and maybe even now, to the legendary, notorious absurdist comedian Andy Kaufman, comedy was an art, and the act of performance was an act worth living in beyond…
Read moreMads Mikkelsen has proved time and again a master at playing quiet, rational, and seemingly harmless men who, when pushed, swiftly reveal themselves also to be skilled executioners; their pent-up rage does not bubble up so much as shoot out…
Read moreTELLURIDE- Despite a varied resume that includes art-house Sci-Fi, a classic coming-of-age tale, and a haunting drama on racial injustice, we weren’t sure Jeff Nichols had it in him to make a movie such as “The Bikeriders.” After its world…
Read moreLOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Director and co-writer Yann Demange’s Dammi is a short film that presents a dramatized yet intensely personal autobiographical account. Riz Ahmed stars as Mounir, a Frenchman with Algerian ethnicity and heritage, who revisits Paris to…
Read moreA parent’s desire to trap their offspring in perpetual childhood is not a foreign concept to Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009 psychological drama “Dogtooth” chronicled the dysfunctional routine of a wealthy businessman, his meek wife, and their severely infantilized…
Read moreRaj & DK are two of Bollywood’s most innovative storytellers. The writing/directing duo has given us many memorable movies and shows already. But now they bring their talents to Netflix with the immensely enjoyable Guns And Gulaabs. Raj & DK’s…
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