Suddenly Susan
I come to you this week as a Whit Stillman fan. There may not be that many of us, but our passion for his...
Apocalypse: Four Horsemen
Just a few weeks after I praised Captain America: Civil War for going away from the “all-powerful baddie trying to destroy the world” model...
Nice Guys: Black Humor
Shane Black famously wrote the script for Lethal Weapon while still in his early 20s and then spent the better part of a decade...
Angry Birds: Red Mist
Movies based on video games continue to earn their wretched reputation, and I’m afraid The Angry Birds Movie won’t do anything to change that....
In Love With Love
Michael Gans saw his future in film when he was in his early teens, after seeing Grand Canyon, Lawrence Kasdan’s 1991 drama telling the...
Helicopter Parenting
A few weeks ago in my review of Hello, My Name Is Doris, I wrote about the slight uptick we’re seeing in movies made...
Collateral Damages
The hype over Captain America: Civil War has been washing over us from the fan conventions and the parts of Europe where the movie...
Chinese Ghost Story
By now I’ve seen horror films worth taking seriously from many different corners of eastern Asia, but mainland China is a notable exception. It’s...
Boys in the Band
It’s official: John Carney is making the best movie musicals anywhere in the world. The Irishman burst onto the scene with his Oscar-winning 2007...
The End of the Tour
Jeremy Saulnier’s superb low-budget revenge thriller Blue Ruin made my list of 2014’s best films, but its scant distribution kept mass audiences from seeing...
