Reviews of independent cinema
FEBRUARY 9, 2017 It’s the current favorite to win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Interested? Good. It’s from Germany. Still fine? It’s a comedy. Wait a minute. A…
FEBRUARY 7, 2017 It’s a dictum heard in creative writing classes around the world. Whenever an aspiring writer asks “What should I write about?” the answer is always the…
FEBRUARY 2, 2017 Don’t let the nice lady with the kitty cat fool you. She is a woman with whom you do not want to mess. In fact, that…
JANUARY 25, 2017 As Tuesday’s Academy Awards nominations demonstrated, there are a number of 2016 films that have definitely taken some chances. Best Documentary nominee “O.J.: Made in America”…
JANUARY 10, 2017 Over 25 years in the making, “Silence” is the long-gestating historical epic about loyalty and faith that has been a dream project of legendary director Martin…
DECEMBER 15, 2016 “Loving,” written and directed by Jeff Nichols, is that rare film filled with powerful strengths that does something that films rarely do — it downplays them.…
DECEMBER 13, 2016 It’s just not fair. You’re Tom Ford, one of the most famous fashion designers in the world, with your own fabulously successful clothing line. You’re a…
DECEMBER 12, 2016 “Moonlight” is the kind of great film that doesn’t announce itself at the door as a Great Film. It sneaks up on you quietly, and just…
DECEMBER 6, 2016 Who would have thought that one of the hottest documentaries of the year would center on a Mongolian teenage girl who wants to break into the…
AUGUST 24, 2016 Don’t think. That’s one of the tenets of improv comedy as the film instructs us in a pre-credit sequence. But don’t think that “Don’t Think Twice”…
