Film Festivals

AFI FEST Review: ‘Whirlybird’ is a fascinating chronicle of the birth of breaking news

courtesy of AFI FEST I live in Los Angeles, and I can tell you two things are ubiquitous:  helicopters and… Read More

October 17, 2020

AFI FEST Review: ‘I’m Your Woman’ flips the script on your dad’s mob drama

Rachel Brosnahan and Arinzé Kene star in I'M YOUR WOMAN (Courtesy of Amazon Studios) Hollywood, despite its recent struggles, still… Read More

October 16, 2020

LFF Review: Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci give career-best turns in a champagne ‘Supernova’ in the sky

The most delicate moments of Supernova, the sublime sophomore feature from British director Harry Macqueen, don’t actually happen on screen;… Read More

October 13, 2020

LFF Review: ‘Soul’ is consistently charming even as it treads familiar ground

Courtesy of Walt Disney Company Despite manufacturing more thankless sequels than original films, Pixar’s name has only become increasingly synonymous… Read More

October 12, 2020

Frameline Review: ‘No Hard Feelings (Futur Drei)’

“The future is ours” says Banafshe, an Iranian woman in Germany on the verge of deportation, towards the end of… Read More

September 11, 2020

Frameline Review: ‘Killing Patient Zero’

Gaëtan Dugas was a handsome French-Canadian flight attendant who, like most gay men in the seventies, dove headfirst into the… Read More

September 9, 2020

Venice Review: The children are our future in effective and fearless ‘Greta’

Some documentaries take its subject matter to heart which also involves probing and delicately unfolding it at the same time.… Read More

September 5, 2020

Fantasia Review: Bryan Bertino is back with ‘The Dark and the Wicked,’ a masterful supernatural horror

Courtesy of RLJE Films “Because you were home” is still a chilling phrase twelve years later. Bryan Bertino burst onto… Read More

August 29, 2020

Fantasia Review: ‘The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw’ is a wicked coming-of-age tale

courtesy of Gate 67 Films It’s autumn of 1973, but you wouldn’t know it. As a plane flies above, what’s… Read More

August 23, 2020

Fantasia Review: ‘Sheep Without a Shepherd’ is a Masterful Ode to Movie Lovers

Photo courtesy of 815 Pictures “I saw it in a movie” is something everyone has said at least once, and… Read More

August 16, 2020

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