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A Sacrifice
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The first two-thirds of "A Sacrifice" are a largely leaden affair that offers viewers little that they haven’t seen before. It isn’t even awful so much as it is intensely forgettable—the kind of film whose title eludes you even as...
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The Human Surge 3
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us to experience life from perspectives outside of our own. The medium reveals the world and those who inhabit it with singular precision as it observes who we are...
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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint Review: A Charming, Intelligent Exploration of Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Contrasts
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s charming, intelligent Chronicles of a Wandering Saint is a natural follow-up to the two short films for which he is known: Soy Buenos Aires (a strange, picaresque rags-to-riches tale) and Museum of Fleeting Wonders (a collection of...
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The B-Side – In Conversation with Daniel Waters on Hudson Hawk & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about filmmakers! Not the films that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today, as a sort of B-Side to our...
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AIFF Jordan 2024 Preview: Context Is Everything
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
The Amman International Film Festival - Awal Film (AIFF) is celebrating its fifth edition this summer, in what is shaping up to be a hot July for the Middle East. Among the more than 30 long films and many short...
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MY OLD ASS Trailer: Aubrey Plaza Tries To Guide Her Younger Self in Megan Park’s Sundance Comedy
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
After bringing audiences to tears with her urgent directorial debut The Fallout, writer-director Megan Park delivers a more lighthearted and hilarious look at female adolescence in her comedy My Old Ass. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year,...
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CRUMB CATCHER Trailer: A Maniacal Inventor Overstays His Welcome in Cringe Horror Comedy
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Writer-director Chris Skotchdopole puts a new spin on the home invasion thriller in his feature debut, Crumb Catcher. The film centers on a married couple whose newlywed bliss is interrupted when they are held captive in a remote lake house...
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‘A Family Affair’ Review: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron Put on a Nora Ephron Karaoke Act
by admin|2 years ago|Slant Magazine
Ultimately, Richard LaGravenese’s rom-com is a little too packed with soul-searching speeches. The post ‘A Family Affair’ Review: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron Put on a Nora Ephron Karaoke Act appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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KINDS OF KINDNESS Review: Everybody’s Looking For Something
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Everybody’s looking for something in Kinds of Kindness, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest attempt to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. Three tales of lost souls on a desperate search for meaning and wholeness take the audience on a wild...
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CHRONICLES OF A WANDERING SAINT
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
(Check out Chris Reed’s Chronicles of a Wandering Saint movie review, the film startsits theater rollout Friday, June 28. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Death may be no cause for joy, but sometimes the absurdities...
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