Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film, “The Favourite” screened this past week as the Opening Night film of the 56th New York Film Festival. Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, the movie is a fictionalized take on a portion of the… Read More ›
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New York Film Festival Review: “High Life”
The opening title for Claire Denis’s 2018 New York Film Festival entry appears almost 15 or 20 minutes after the movie starts. It comes up as a series of dead bodies float in space, having been pushed out of… Read More ›
Movie Review: “First Man” (2018)
Damien Chazelle’s “First Man,” has some of the most outstanding cinematic visuals I have seen in a long time. The sequences on the moon, particularly in IMAX, are stunning, but even that doesn’t do them justice. They are completely mesmerizing… Read More ›
Movie Review: “Bad Times at the El Royale”
No one could ever accuse “Bad Times at the El Royale,” a movie I would prefer to call “Bad Times at the the Royal,” of not having a certain style. This is a dark comedy, a noir tale of… well of… Read More ›
New York Film Festival Review: “If Beale Street Could Talk”
One thing was evident at the outset of the New York Film Festival screening of Barry Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk,” which Jenkins has adapted from James Baldwin’s novel, and that’s the writer/director’s confidence. Everything within this touching tale… Read More ›
Movie Review: “Venom” (2018)
Immediately prior to the climactic sequence of director Ruben Fleischer’s “Venom,” the alien creature who gives the film its title announces to its host, Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), that they have zero chance to win the upcoming battle. Do they… Read More ›
Movie Review: “The Hate U Give”
Written by Audrey Wells, based on the novel by Angie Thomas, and directed by George Tillman, Jr., “The Hate U Give” acts like a gut punch. It is a movie that feels as though it perfectly exists in our world,… Read More ›
