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Capsule Reviews: February 2020 Limited Releases
And Then We Danced Swedish-Georgian drama about Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani), a young dancer training in the National Georgian Ensemble in Tblisi, whose world is shaken by the arrival of a handsome new dancer, Irakli (Bachi Valishvili). As far as gay love stories go, this is honestly rather basic and familiar ... -
Capsule Reviews: May 2015 Wide Releases
Aloha Comedy (?) where Bradley Cooper plays a military contractor and former soldier who returns to Hawaii for a secret new assignment, where he makes amends with his ex (Rachel McAdams) and finds new love. Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky) was one of the most promising filmmakers ... -
Catching up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe
For someone with a film blog who writes reviews and likes to think of himself as an authority on the current state of things in cinema, I had a shamefully huge, Marvel-sized hole in my knowledge. I had seen the first Iron Man and the first Captain America back in ... -
Hail, Caesar!
After the intense sadness that they wove throughout their last film, 2013’s great Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen switch gears into pure light-hearted silliness with their latest, Hail, Caesar! This isn’t the first time that the auteur brothers have made a broad all-star comedy to cleanse their palate ... -
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 ...
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four