Reviews of independent cinema
AUGUST 8, 2018 Tonight (Wednesday 8/8) movie theaters across the country will be playing Bo Burnham’s acclaimed film “Eighth Grade” for the audience whom it was intended to reach…
JULY 31, 2018 One of the most welcome surprises of the summer box-office season has been the unexpected resurgence of feature documentaries. Two upbeat celebrity profiles — “RBG,” a…
JULY 11, 2018 “Hearts Beat Loud” is an absolute charmer of a movie. By that, I don’t mean to minimize the film’s achievement. It sets out to charm (not…
JULY 9, 2018 I never really knew a whole lot about Fred Rogers. Of course, I had heard of him and saw most of the parodies (particularly Eddie Murphy’s…
JULY 2, 2018 If you’re a fan of the films of the 1970s and 1980s, you’ll know the name Paul Schrader. He wrote the landmark script for the Martin…
MAY 22, 2018 Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio has had quite a year. In March, he won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film for “A Fantastic Woman,” a…
MAY 17, 2018 The national box office returns got severely shaken up this weekend. It seems that a small documentary smashed into the national Top 10, just behind “Black…
MARCH 15, 2018 I know that I swore that I had closed the door on 2017. But in the words of former Presidential confidante Hope Hicks, that was a…
FEBRUARY 21, 2018 I know that I’m a bad gay for waiting so long to review Best Picture nominee “Call Me By Your Name” (it’s been in theaters for…
DECEMBER 18, 2017 What the hell happened to Woody Allen’s writing? Yes, I know that he has recently had more bad movies than good (I’m thinking of “Irrational Man”…
