The Mancunian Candidates
Peterloo by Matt Weiner It should be a match made in heaven: British director Mike Leigh channeling an uprising that pitted reactionary government leaders against a working-class population with radical…read more →
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The Hills Are Alive
Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse by Hope Madden Making a remarkably assured feature debut as director, Lukas Feigelfeld mesmerizes with his German Gothic poetry, Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse. Settled somewhere in…read more →
Crash: The Musical
Stuck by Rachel Willis Based on the musical of the same name, director Michael Berry’s film Stuck is the story of six strangers trapped on a subway car who change…read more →
I Don’t Want To Go Out — Week of April 15
It’s the week of one-word movie titles. One of these couldn’t meet the high bar it set for itself, but it’s not such a bad movie. The other one is…read more →
Screening Room: Missing Link, Hellboy, Little, After, Master Z
Lots and lots to cover in the Screening Room this week: Missing Link, Hellboy, Little, After, and Master Z: Ip Man Legacy. Plus just as many new home entertainment releases.…read more →
Boy, Oh Boy
Hellboy by Hope Madden It has been 15 years since Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman first brought Mike Mignola’s cat loving, iron fisted, soft hearted son of Satan to…read more →
Let’s Get Small
Little by Hope Madden Based on a concept by 14 year-old executive producer and star Marsai Martin (Black-ish), the comeuppance comedy Little flips the script on the Tom Hanks Eighties…read more →
We Don’t Need Another Hero
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy by Matt Weiner Master Z picks up right where Ip Man 3 left off. Cheung Tin Chi (Max Zhang), still emotionally beaten down after losing…read more →
I Don’t Want to Go Out—Week of April 8
Movie and more movies out this week in home entertainment. A couple are great, a couple are near misses, at least one is a real head-scratcher. No worries, though, we’ll…read more →
Screening Room: Shazam!, Pet Sematary, Best of Enemies, The Public, The Wind, The Aftermath, Diane
Whew! That is a lot of movies. We will talk you through all of them: Shazam!, Pet Sematary, The Best of Enemies, The Public, The Wind, The Aftermath and Diane—plus…read more →