Brett Haley's fourth feature is an unassuming indie drama with some memorable music and surprising emotional depth.…
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Morgan Neville's documentary is a charming and uplifting, if slight and superficial, portrait of a beloved television figure.…
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Advertisements On the 7th of June, documentary lovers descended on Sheffield’s city center for six days of films and fun in the sun. This year the festival opened itself up to the virtual reality boom and many other modern interpretations of storytelling.…
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Advertisements A decidedly less depressing melodrama feature from Makoto Shinkai, the famed director of Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru (5 Centimeters per Second, 2007) and Koto no ha no Niwa (The Garden of Words, 2013), Kimi no Na Wa. (Your Name., 2016) looks at…
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Advertisements The Disaster Artist hits Amazon Prime this month so I sat down to watch arguably the most critically acclaimed film that I missed last year. Based on the book of the same name, the A24 product chronicles the making of the…
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Advertisements Hotel Artemis starts off as a sort of near-future spin-off of John Wick, focusing on its own set of rules detached from the everyday life that we experience. It seeks satisfaction in that discrepancy, finding moments of intrigue in how that ruleset…
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Advertisements After a short hiatus, Jackie Chan returns to English speaking live action film with The Foreigner. Sadly, he might have been better off sticking with Chinese films instead. The Foreigner is based on the 1992 book “The Chinaman” and besides Chan…
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Advertisements I often wondered what Angelina Jolie was up to, but little did I know she was working on a biopic that would send chills down my spine. First They Killed My Father is a historical biopic directed by Jolie–based on the memoir…
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