It took a few minutes to get in sync with austere Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang's (Viva L’Amour, Goodbye, Dragon Inn) deliberate pace. (The title prophetically announced the amount of time one felt it took for the first couple of long takes to play out.) Neither one of our principals is …
Just because you’ve never heard of someplace doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Take unincorporated Knockemstiff, Ohio, the setting for several of the acts of venality and vile affections that litter the film’s 138-minute running time. With its depiction of soldiers bringing the violence of war back home with them, The …
Were it the '70s, the radio spot would begin, “In public, she was an Instagram model. In private, she put the ‘die' in diary. They killed her friends. They had her dog impounded. Now someone is fighting back!” Any story, even a five-minute chunk of one explaining how “influencers," models …
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Her super powers extend far beyond those of the mild-mannered gatekeeper whose job it is to flag cabs or sign for packages. Look! Up in the vestibule! It’s a guard! It’s a greeter! It’s Doorman! Ruby Rose makes her first big screen ascent since controversially relinquishing the role of TV’s …
The homicide transpired in a Brooklyn housing project in 2014: NYPD cop Peter Liang was two years on the job when he happened across Akai Gurley, an unarmed 28-year-old black man, on a dim flight of steps. The 911 call ends with the neighbor on the other end gasping, “The …
After two years of widowerhood, and thinking the time is right for a much-needed getaway, Luke (Henry Thomas) packs Josh (Finlay Wojtak-Hissong), his still-traumatized son and Gail (Radha Mitchell, who also produced), the boy’s replacement mom, into the family roadster and heads to their secluded summer house aka the very …
DTF: Down to Fornicate. It’s impossible to imagine the eponymous initialism was there from the outset. Doting filmmaker Al Bailey (he played matchmaker for the film’s subject “Christian” and his late wife Charlotte) initially intended a documentary feature on how airplane pilots use dating apps to find true love. From …
In my youth, a film such as this was vanquished to the “old people’s movie” bin. Now that I snugly fit the demographic, I take even greater offense to such simple-minded geezer-porn. Jim Broadbent stars as Kempton Bunton, a real life taxi driver/frustrated playwright outraged over a television tax imposed …
What a joy! We open in Eddy Goldfarb’s kitchen, the 98 year old toy inventor at play with one of his 800 creations, that childhood perennial: the bubble gun. The frenetic energy that triggers the solar powered toys that line the window could use a good winding when compared to …