In the admirably bold, unconventionally self-aware new stage musical version of John Berendt’s 1994 blockbuster bestseller “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” transgender icon The Lady Chablis emerges from being one of many…
‘Some things are better left unfound’ Abominable is a 2006 horror film about a man who returns to his cabin in the woods as part of his rehabilitation after he …
The Italian movies during the 20th Century existed in genre waves. A movie would get popular and almost overnight, Italian producers and directors were ready with a hundred films to hit the marquees with similar sounding titles. The waves…
Considering the sheer volume and overall quality of films and TV series available on Apple TV+, it’s almost jarring to realize the subscription streaming service was launched just five years ago. In that half-decade, the Apple Originals…
Hidden greatness … a still from Bushman, with Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam as Gabriel and Elaine Featherstone as Alma. Photograph: Publicity image A unique 1971 work by US musician and filmmaker David Schickele, long overlooked but now restored…
Broodingly obsessed … The Fifth Seal. Photograph: Courtesy: Klassiki The Seventh Seal, a movie by Ingmar Bergman, hints at the apocalyptic revelation of angelic trumpeters and divine wrath. In contrast, Hungarian director Zoltán Fábri’s…
Zoltán Fábri’s 1976 film follows military veteran Karoly in wartime Hungary as he asks fellow drinkers in a bar what they would choose: be the slave master or the slave
Hur Bum-wook announces himself as a talent to watch with his furious and deranged animated eco-horror parable Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease. A cross between early Yeon Sang-ho animation works like The King of Pigs, Bong Joon-ho…
Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Film Review, a movie directed by Greg Berlanti, written by Keenan Flynn, Rose Gilroy and Bill Kirstein and starring Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, Ray Romano, Jim Rash, Peter Jacobson,…
An isolated older man falls for his nurse in a well-intentioned but erratically edited film undercut by poorly written characters with lengthy, repetitive dialogues
Though he’s only been making movies for less than two decades, Jeff Nichols has become one of my favorite contemporary filmmakers. I’ve seen four out of his six films (still need to see Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter) and loved every…