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Wednesday, Jun. 12, 2024
Review: Writer-Director Daina O. Pusic's "Tuesday" Takes Us On A Strange, Emotional, Fiercely Original Journey
Death has taken many forms in cinema. It's been Bengt Ekerot. Ian McKellen. John Cleese. Even Brad Pitt with blonde highlights. But in "Tuesday," filmmaker Daina O. Pusić's bold, fantastical and affecting debut, death looks like a lot like a macaw that's seen better days. Covered in a thick layer...
Tuesday, Jun. 11, 2024
Review: Andrew McCarthy Directs, Stars In "Brats" Documentary
He's 61 now, well-off and trim. He has many accomplishments as an actor but there's this one thing he finds hard to shake: Back in 1985, he got called something. During the Reagan administration, rising star Andrew McCarthy was lumped into an amorphous group of young actors who were changing...
Thursday, Jun. 6, 2024
Lensing "We Were the Lucky Ones," "The Morning Show," "The Curse" and "Ahsoka"
One cinematographer described the limited series he lensed as perhaps “the most personal project I’ve ever done.” Another DP found it gratifying to get the opportunity to work with groundbreaking director Mimi Leder. Our third cinematographer valued his return engagement with not only writer-...
Thursday, May. 30, 2024
Review: Director Ron Howard's "Jim Henson Idea Man"
There are moments when the spark of creation suddenly ignites and history stops. Like when the Wright brothers got a plane to fly. Or when Oreo added double filling. Maybe just as resonant was when Jim Henson cut up his mother's green coat into odd shapes and added ping-pong balls for eyes. At that...
Thursday, May. 30, 2024
Review: Daisy Ridley Shines In Director Joachim Rønning's "Young Woman and the Sea"
In August 1926, a 19-year-old New Yorker named Trudy Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had finished the 21-mile trek from Cape Gris-Nez in France to Kingsdown Beach in England before — a harrowing journey through frigid waters, unpredictable tides, currents...
Wednesday, May. 29, 2024
Review: Director Pablo Berger's "Robot Dreams"
It's one of those strange but immutable truths of the movies that a song like Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" can play in roughly a thousand films before a movie about a dog and a robot comes along and blows them all out of the water. The animated "Robot Dreams" is wordless, so the songs play...
Thursday, May. 23, 2024
Review: Director Richard Linklater's "Hit Man"
For a guy like Glen Powell, the ascent to movie stardom isn't really a question. It's more like an inevitability. Blessed with that square jawline, those bright green eyes, a flop of dirty blonde hair and the kind of symmetrical smile that would seem suspect if it weren't so darn charming, he's a...
Monday, May. 20, 2024
Review: Director George Miller's "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga"
At the beginning of "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," we are introduced to a kick-ass woman who rides a horse, then a motorbike, nails a few bad guys with sharpshooting finesse and fights off a mob. But it's not Furiosa — it's her mom. That's one of the oddities of this latest offering in the Mad Max...
Wednesday, May. 15, 2024
Review: Director Pamela Adlon's "Babes"
You know what? It's true. They never do tell you about the placenta. Let us explain. But first, let's also point out that if you're already queasy at the mention of "placenta," well, "Babes" — director Pamela Adlon's brash, chaotic, hilarious and occasionally overly gooey (in so many ways)...
Wednesday, May. 8, 2024
Review: "Gasoline Rainbow," Directed By Bill and Turner Ross
In sibling directors Bill and Turner Ross ' latest, "Gasoline Rainbow," five Oregon teens just out of high school make their meandering way some 500 miles to reach the coast for what's been billed as the "End of the World" party. They are like countless young protagonists before them: on the road...