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The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
We’re thrilled to launch a new feature on The Film Stage highlighting our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to restorations receiving a proper theatrical run. While we already provide extensive monthly new-release recommendations and weekly...
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About Dry Grasses
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Everybody lies. Whether with malice, for self-preservation, or to spare another’s heart, fabrications lubricate or erode social interactions. But it’s in the liminal space between the idea of absolute certainty — an unattainable utopia — and the most outlandish of...
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Seagrass
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
“Do you need a reason to be unhappy,” asks Carol (Sarah Gadon) in Meredith Hama-Brown’s effective character study “Seagrass,” the story of how grief often begets other repressed emotions and possibly even tragedies. There’s something fascinating in that question in...
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Ordinary Angels
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Just because we know where a movie is going does not mean we don’t enjoy getting there. That’s especially true when it has a solid script and a two-time Oscar-winner in a role with three key elements beloved by audiences:...
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Red Right Hand
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
"If you're gonna survive in these hills, you'll have to get used to a little blood," purrs Big Cat (Andie MacDowell), an Appalachian drug kingpin just before she has her goons feed a Sheriff's deputy to her guard dogs. That’s...
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New to Streaming: All of Us Strangers, The Zone of Interest, Priscilla, Youth (Spring) & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh) There are many films about the devastating effects...
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Stopmotion
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit of their craft pushes them into madness with grisly results is a familiar horror movie premise, one that has covered subjects ranging from beatnik sculptors (the Roger Corman...
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Golden Years
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Cinema is replete with examples of stories about old couples getting their groove back in their later years. Old age is, after all, a kind of new adolescence, as kids grow old, careers become less important, and your dwindling remaining...
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Bring Him to Me
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Why is it that crime big wigs in movies enjoy wasting ammo so much? Late in “Bring Him to Me,” a new heist-and-its-aftermath thriller directed by Luke Spark from a script by Tom Evans, a ruthless boss dispatches one of...
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The B-Side – Sigourney Weaver (with Joe Reid)
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we chat about the action heroine:...
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