film reviews
Heart of Darkness
Cold Case Hammarskjöld by Christie Robb Initially an exploration of the suspicious death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961, Mads Brügger’s documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld takes a sharp…read more →
Let’s All Go to the Editing Bay
Have You Seen My Movie? by Matt Weiner If the phrase “a love-letter to cinema” wasn’t clichéd by now, Paul Anton Smith’s new meta-film Have You Seen My Movie? at…read more →
Bird of Prey
The Nightingale by Hope Madden There is a moment in George Miller’s 2015 action masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. The empty bridal chamber is revealed quickly. Scrawled on the wall:…read more →
I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of August 19
Wow, there are a lot of movies coming home this week. Some of them are so bad. Just really, extraordinarily bad. But hidden in there are a couple of decent…read more →
Screening Room: Blinded By the Light, Good Boys, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Honeyland
Another week chock full of movie options. Guilty pleasures to disappointments, poetic fables to fanboy riots. Check them out:
Queen Bee
Honeyland by Hope Madden Cinematic in structure, narrative in its storytelling, all of it expressed with a visual flair that give it the sense of poetry—Honeyland is no ordinary documentary.…read more →
I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of August 12
Little-known gem Avengers: Endgame come home this week. Heard of it? If that’s not your bag, maybe a little Shakespeare? Click the title to link to the full review. Avengers:…read more →
Screening Room: Dora, Scary Stories, The Kitchen, Them that Follow, Brian Banks, Maiden
Whew! That’s a lot of movies! Some good, some bad, some really good…Well, maybe just listen to the podcast.
These Boots Are Made for Exploring
Dora and the Lost City of Gold by Hope Madden Dora the Explorer takes her backpack, her map and her adventures to the big screen. Can you say surprisingly entertaining?…read more →