TIFF Review: Nicole Riegel’s ‘Holler’ resonates with rural plight
Writer/director Nicole Riegel’s feature debut, Holler, expands upon her 2016 short of the same title. Originally a story of two young brothers making ends meet,... Read More
Reviews
Venice Review: Vanessa Kirby gives a career-best performance in grief-laden ‘Pieces of a Woman’
The entire heart-rending story of Kornél Mundruczó’s newest feature, Pieces of a Woman, can be deciphered in Martha (Vanessa Kirby)’s fingers – their gestures and... Read More
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 pleasure-as-politics ethos of the burgeoning... Read More
TV Review: ‘Pen15’ season two shows the transformative power of friendship and tweens’ imagination
There’s a brilliant visual gag in Hulu’s middle-school raunchy comedy PEN15. Co-creators and lead actors Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, both in their thirties, play... Read More
Venice Review: Regina King’s glorious ‘One Night in Miami’ is a vital and indispensable directorial debut
The feature-film directorial debut of Emmy and Academy Award-winning actress Regina King will leave a significant mark in the history of the Venice Film Festival,... Read More
Film Review: An actor’s career, redemption, and life are on the ropes in ‘You Cannot Kill David Arquette’
When you hear the name David Arquette, you might think of the actor from the Scream franchise. You might think of the Hollywood wrestler who... Read More
Venice Review: Luca Guadagnino cobbles together a Ferragamo fantasy in ‘Salvatore – Shoemaker of Dreams’
For three years, since 2017, Italian director Luca Guadagnino has been working on a documentary dedicated to the life and work of shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo... Read More
Retrospective: ‘Almost Famous,’ still holding us closer 20 years later
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 20 years since Almost Famous came out. A critical success but a commercial failure, it was nevertheless... Read More
Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: “Sex, Lies and Pancakes”
It’s another week of “The Real Housewives of Potomac,” or as I now refer to it “Dr. Wendy Osefo and Six Other Women.” I haven’t... Read More
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. Others are so determined to... Read More
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