Category: Theatrical

Total 168 Posts

Film Review: ‘The Hole In The Fence’- Savagery And The Loss Of Innocence

Symbolism weighs heavy in every minute of the always involving but too obvious and much too harsh Mexican film “El hoyo en la cerca” (“The Hole in the Fence”). Written by Lucy Pawlak and Joaquin del Paso and directed by

Film review: ‘You Can Live Forever’- Love, Sex, And Individualism

Writer/directors Mark Slutsky and Sarah Watts’ debut feature “You Can Live Forever” is a film filled with truth, tenderness, and an understanding of character. Set in the early 1990s Canada, Jaime (wonderfully played by Anwen O’Driscoll) is sent to live

Film Review: ‘Master Gardener’- A Master Screenwriter In Top Form

Rebirth of the soul. “God’s lonely man” writing in his journal of a past littered with sin. A reach for a final grace. We are in the always intoxicating world of Paul Schrader whose “Master Gardener” arrives to give modern

‘It Ain’t Over’: Film Review

At the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Stars game, fans voted Hank Aaron, Johnny Bench, Sandy Koufax, and Willie Mays as the best players the game has ever seen. Yogi Berra, a 10-time World Series winner as a catcher for the

‘Carmen’: Film Review

Credited as a reimagining of Bizet’s four-act opera of the same name, Benjamin Millepied’s Carmen is the story of a woman on the run (West Side Story’s Melissa Barrera) following the murder of her mother by the cartel and a

Film Review: ‘Book Club: The Next Chapter’

One of the biggest challenges facing moviegoers today is a lack of movies drawing a varied demographic into the theater. Sure, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 could be for the young and the young-at-heart, and unless you’re a die-hard

Film Review: ‘I’ll Be Watching’- A Plundering Of Better Films

Erik Bernard’s “I’ll Be Watching” is a thriller in search of an original idea. The film cannot deliver its intended thrills and fails in the emotional drama. Artist Julie Alexander (Eliza Taylor) is alone at her first big exhibition waiting

Film Review: ‘Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant’

Three pillars of human existence and the bonds between us define Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, a story of survival, instinct, and basic human goodness in a time and place that does not support or forgive such acts. The place is Afghanistan,

Film Review: ‘Evil Dead Rise’- 5th Film In The Series Is A Bloody Delight

The bland Hollywood genre films of today get a jolt of bloody originality and excitement in the form of “Evil Dead Rise”, a wild, raucous, and inventive thrill ride of a horror film. Writer/director Lee Cronin does something rare and

Film Review: ‘Everything Went Fine’: The Right To Die As We Wish

“Everything Went Fine” is François Ozon’s latest drama to tackle a controversial social issue. Much like the director’s 2018 Catholic Church sex abuse film “By the Grace of God”, Ozon takes on a serious and divisive subject with honesty and