OCTOBER 29, 2020 Photo: Joan Marcus You can’t say that director Marielle Heller shies away from a challenge. After her acclaimed directing debut, 2015’s “Diary of a Teenage Girl,”…
AUGUST 13, 2019 Like him or not, there’s no filmmaker quite like Quentin Tarantino. I can’t think of a single director who is as deeply knowledgeable about the power…
JANUARY 11, 2018 Seriously, was anyone really crying out for a film biography of disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding? Well, apparently screenwriter Steven Rogers (“Stepmom”) thought so and enlisted…
AUGUST 14, 2017 Photo: AP It all seemed so ridiculous on Friday. Several hundred neo-Nazi protesters marched through the University of Virginia at Charlottesville on Friday night, with many…
AUGUST 3, 2017 I have to admit that I wasn’t exactly looking forward to reviewing Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film “Detroit,” which opens nationwide tomorrow. Not that I thought…
NOVEMBER 4, 2016 Four days to go. Exact Change Today has been covering this election for about the last year and a half, and it’s down to four days…
AUGUST 9, 2016 Photo: Getty And it was all going so well. After committing a long series of gaffes last week and seeing his poll numbers plummet, Donald Trump…
JULY 8, 2016 Photo: AP I just can’t. Movies can wait till next week. Donald Trump’s antics can wait till hell freezes over. I’m just shaken this morning with…
MAY 25, 2016 Tuesday night is Primary Night in the heat of the 2016 campaign, but this Tuesday in Washington was a low-impact affair with only the Republican side…
MAY 18, 2016 Photo: Getty This is really getting ugly. Tuesday was supposed to be a regular Tuesday primary night with contests in Kentucky and Oregon. As expected, Bernie…
