Kubo and the Two Strings: Paperboy
I must confess I’m less enamored with Kubo and the Two Strings than most other people seem to be. This stop-motion animated film is...
Pete’s Dragon: Beast of the Northern Wild
Disney Studios continue to raid their back catalog of animated hits to remake into live-action films for a new era, and so far I’ve...
Florence Foster Jenkins: Murder on the High Cs
Meryl Streep has proven her singing ability time and again, so it seems more than a bit perverse to cast her as one of...
Bonus Film Review: Suicide Squad
Once upon a time, Warner Brothers revived its Batman series with a talented young director at the helm named Christopher Nolan. And it was...
Five Nights in Maine: Loved and Lost
Opening this week at AMC Grapevine Mills for a limited run, Five Nights in Maine is a racially charged two-hander of a bereavement drama...
He’s Trippin’
At 52, David Reyes took a while to finally finish his first fiction film.
“I was part of that sad generation that saw Star Wars...
Bad Moms: Oh, Mama!
The late Garry Marshall’s last film was released this spring. It was called Mother’s Day, and it wasn’t mentioned in many of the director’s...
Café Society: Beautiful People
So it turns out that the latest young actress to give a dazzling performance in a Woody Allen film wasn’t Emma Stone but rather...
Filming the Stockyards
A bunch of cowboys are expected to be sidling up to bars and moseying down sidewalks in the Stockyards this weekend. The fourth Saturday...
Absolutely Fabulous: Passing Fashion
I should start off by saying I’m an Absolutely Fabulous virgin. I had never seen a single episode of the cult 1990s British sitcom...
