• Heaven Knows What

    Capsule Reviews: May 2015 Limited Releases

    Aloft Indie drama which screened in competition at Berlin, about a desperate mother (Jennifer Connelly) who turns to a faith healer to cure her terminally ill son, and also about her traumatized other son (Cillian Murphy) who tracks her down 20 years later in the Canadian Arctic. Peruvian filmmaker Claudia ...
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

    What’s New: Weekend of March 25

    Two new sequels are opening in theatres this weekend, and you can expect one of them to do enormous business, despite atrocious reviews. That film is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the new sequel to Man of Steel and second entry in the DC Extended Universe film series. What ...
  • Hail, Caesar!

    What’s New: Weekend of February 5

    The first weekend of February brings with it three new wide releases, and it’s quite the eclectic bunch. There’s a goofy comedy from high-brow iconic auteur brothers, a sappy Nicholas Sparks adaptation, and, er, a British costume drama horror comedy. That last one is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, based ...
  • Sinister 2

    Sinister 2

    The 2012 film Sinister introduced the Bughuul, a freaky boogeyman who feasts on young children, inciting them to murder their families while filming themselves doing the deed. In the film, Ethan Hawke played a successful true-crime writer who moved his family into a house that was the scene of one ...
  • Medeas

    Capsule Reviews: January 2015 Limited Releases

    Amira & Sam Martin Starr (HBO's Silicon Valley) as a former soldier living in New York City who falls in love with an undocumented Iraqi immigrant (Dina Shihabi). Lovely cinematography by Daniel Vecchione, who captures New York twilight at its most magical. First-time writer/director Sean Mullin particularly adept at character ...