T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Tribeca 2021 September 14, 2021 TIFF 2021: Jagged tells you everything you oughta know about Alanis Morrissette Alison Klayman's chronicle of the Canadian singer's rise to fame centers around her seminal 1995 album, and the trail it blazed for female artists.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 13, 2021 TIFF 2021: Naomi Watts tries to outrun disaster in the horrendous Lakewood Phillip Noyce and Naomi Watts team up for a preposterous, formulaic high-concept thriller that does nothing tasteful with its premise.
T Categories Festivals Movies TIFF 2021 September 12, 2021 TIFF: The Mad Women’s Ball is sadly far from a blitz The Mad Women's Ball, Melanie Laurent's adaptation of a novel about a young woman's incarceration in a cruel asylum, is disappointingly flat.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 11, 2021 TIFF: Listening to Kenny G is about as pleasantly inoffensive as his music Penny Lane's profile on the smooth jazz superstar can't quite muster up enough energy to make its explorations of his notoriety (good and bad) sing.
“ Categories Anniversaries Movies August 18, 2021 “It’s Just You And Me Now, Sport”: Manhunter at 35 We look back at Michael Mann's moody, underappreciated take on the Hannibal Lector (sorry Lecktor) mythos, thirty-five years later.
R Categories Anniversaries August 2, 2021 Revisiting the calamitous Howard the Duck at 35 Howard the Duck is an utter mess, and the costume is terrifying, but at least it's distinct in its failure!
T Categories Anniversaries Features July 9, 2021 Two-Lane Blacktop at 50 (years, not miles) A half-century on, we look at the fast and furious American arthouse car flick that became, against all odds, a landmark of independent cinema.
& Categories Anniversaries Movies Reviews July 2, 2021 “I’ll finally be free” – Psycho III at 35 Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates himself - steps behind the camera to make a morbidly funny and surprisingly moving Psycho sequel.
& Categories Anniversaries Features June 26, 2021 “Bears wear hats”: “The Great Muppet Caper” at 40 Kermit and company's second big-screen outing is a hodgepodge comedy partially redeemed by the great Charles Grodin.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews Tribeca 2021 June 17, 2021 Tribeca 2021: “We Need to Do Something” doesn’t do quite enough Sean King O'Grady directs a claustrophobic horror film that has a lot of potential, but just misses the mark.
