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The new indie character study MADELINE’S MADELINE opens this weekend at The Music Box theater, as well as other arthouses throughout the nation, and it is not for the faint of heart. It’s an [...]

The new film KIN wants to be many things: a sci-fi fantasy, a road trip comedy, a coming-of-age story, and a brutal actioner. At times, it succeeds in individually essaying all of them, but taken [...]

Original caricature by Jeff York of Ben Kingsley and Oscar Isaac in OPERATION FINALE (copyright 2018).The story of the capture of famed Nazi Adolf Eichmann is an inherently dramatic one. The [...]

It’s back-to-school time and, not surprisingly, there are a couple of new movies in theaters that deal with the theme of education. One passes assuredly, while the other utterly fails. Of course, [...]

All period pieces comment on the present. Spike Lee’s new film BLACKKKLANSMAN, about a couple of undercover cops infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs in 1972, not only indicts [...]

As someone who writes film reviews, hosts a movie podcast and has been doing this movie blog for eight years, I have to chime in on the idiotic moves that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and [...]

Oh, what Richard Curtis unleashed on the world in 2003. After the wild success of LOVE, ACTUALLY, the writer/director’s multi-storied holiday rom-com inspired all kinds of imitators. Director [...]

Walt Disney Pictures has done an agile job turning their vault of animated films into live-action updates. CINDERELLA, THE JUNGLE BOOK and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST are just three of the cartoon [...]

For as many spy films there are that come down the pike, there are almost as many spoofs. THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME is the latest and its title doesn’t suggest a lot of originality considering it’s a [...]