Storytellers are lucky World War II was a historical event of titanic scale, since they can keep mining every corner of its moments for fresh details few of us have pondered. For filmmakers…
The story behind “Backrooms” would remain intriguing even if the film were not a memorably unnerving visual puzzle. Its director, Kane Parsons, is a mere twenty years old, born just as YouTube…
When Disney bought Lucasfilm and became owner of the “Star Wars” franchise, something fundamentally changed. In hindsight, it is easier to see now how difficult it is to capture the magic that made…
Boots Riley wants to keep alive a certain form of radical filmmaking with his first film in eight years, “I Love Boosters.” The rapper-turned-director is clearly in no rush to simply chase…
There will be few villains as monstrously terrifying at the movies this year as the antagonist of Aleshea Harris’ “Is God Is.” As played by Sterling K. Brown, the mysterious father being…
Sometimes there will be a curious case of syzygy, when actors giving it their all are placed in a movie that is an otherwise throwaway entertainment. “Mortal Kombat II” is a slightly…
Some devils stay stubbornly firm despite the passage of time. We would expect nothing less from Miranda Priestly, the fashion magazine titan turned into an instant cult figure by Meryl Streep in 2006’s…
Kirk Jones’ “I Swear” walks quite a delicate set of fine lines. It tells the story of John Davidson, who came of age in 1980s Scotland with Tourette Syndrome, at a time…