Stream on Demand: Netflix series get new bodies, new powers
Thu., Feb. 27, 2020
What’s new for home viewing on Video on Demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other streaming services.
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‘Seberg’ review: Kristen Stewart can’t save superficial biopic of New Wave icon
Thu., Feb. 27, 2020
If “Breathless” star Jean Seberg hadn’t existed, a hard-boiled novelist would have had to invent her – a glittering Hollywood/New Wave icon of modern style and civil rights outspokenness who survived a gantlet of male impresarios only to be laid low by FBI smear tactics harsher than any showbiz gossip monger’s.
‘The Invisible Man’ review: Leigh Whannell’s inventive twist on classic empathizes heroine’s domestic abuse horror
Wed., Feb. 26, 2020
To reinvent H.G. Wells’ 1897 story, which is best-known as the 1933 James Whale classic horror film, Leigh Whannell has flipped the notion of invisibility. In this take, invisibility is no superpower, and no affliction, like the bandage-wrapped Claude Rains, but rather it’s a threat.
Stream On Demand: Pacino comes to home screens with ‘Hunters’
Thu., Feb. 20, 2020
What’s new for home viewing on Video on Demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other streaming services.
Review: Wintry ‘The Lodge’ steeped in brutal trauma
Wed., Feb. 19, 2020
It wouldn’t be appropriate to refer to “The Lodge” as a slow-burn horror movie, as this chilly, winter-set film is more like a deliberate and punishing freeze. It slowly creeps in, locking the characters into a nightmarish prison from which they cannot escape and leaving them forever altered.
Review: Human performances bring literary dog film ‘Call of the Wild’ to life
Wed., Feb. 19, 2020
The star of “The Call of the Wild,” Buck, is a CGI creation. And it’s only through the technology that his dangerous and harrowing adventures in the Alaskan wilderness during the Gold Rush, as outlined by Jack London, could be realistically brought to the big screen for better or for worse.
Review: ‘The Assistant’ masterfully shows abuse, complicity in Weinstein-inspired power structure
Wed., Feb. 19, 2020
It’s the specificity that devastates in Kitty Green’s starkly damning quotidian drama “The Assistant.” It’s in the quiet efficiency with which our unnamed protagonist (credited as “Jane,” played by Julia Garner) speaks and moves as she performs her menial yet seemingly crucial duties in a job we will come to discover is harrowing and highly prized.
Review: In “The Photograph,” Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield take a good, long look at love
Thu., Feb. 13, 2020
“The Photograph” treats all its characters with some decency and understanding in a genre where straw villains and cardboard adversaries typically run rampant. The plaintive, jazz-inflected musical score by Robert Glasper establishes the right vibe and level of drama, which is to say: more like life and less like the movies.
Stream on Demand: Award-winning ‘Farewell’ delves into family drama and culture clashes
Thu., Feb. 13, 2020
What’s new for home viewing on Video on Demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other streaming services.
Review: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ is swift, smart and brings back the Jim Carrey we missed
Wed., Feb. 12, 2020
Ah, the joy of a kids’ movie that doesn’t have any fart jokes. Or at least one that comes close. “Sonic the Hedgehog” may have one moment of flatulence, but this live-action and CGI animation hybrid gets away with it.
Review: ‘Downhill’ sets family on a slippery slope
Wed., Feb. 12, 2020
Watching Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s deeply uncomfortable absurdist relationship drama “Force Majeure,” one can’t help but think this bleakly obtuse and existentially unbearable film is the type that would never be greenlighted in the United States.
Appreciation: You’ll never see another movie star like Kirk Douglas
Thu., Feb. 6, 2020
When Kirk Douglas died at age 103 on Wednesday, one of the last threads connecting this era to Hollywood’s Golden Age was severed forever. He outlived – by decades – such colleagues as Burt Lancaster, Henry Fonda and Spencer Tracy.
A guide to the superhero movies of 2020, from ‘Birds of Prey’ to ‘Wonder Woman 1984’
Thu., Feb. 6, 2020
Warner Bros. and DC Comics are releasing films featuring their two most popular big-screen characters of the moment (Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn), Valiant Comics is finally seeing one of its heroes hit the big screen (Bloodshot), and Venom hopes to best its previous movie’s $856 million worldwide haul in a sequel that looks to be a lot bloodier.
Review: Harley Quinn and her girl gang are lovable psychopaths in ‘Birds of Prey’
Thu., Feb. 6, 2020
2020 is Harley Quinn’s year. And in the wake of her breakup with the Joker, she’s back and better than ever with a brand-new girl gang in the brilliant, breakneck “Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn.”
Two programs of Oscar-nominated shorts; 10 movies worth seeing
Thu., Jan. 30, 2020
I’ve probably typed some version of “the fictional short films nominated for Oscars this year are a mixed bag” a dozen times, but that phrase doesn’t apply in 2020. All 10 are good, and several are great.
Review: ‘The Rhythm Section’ brings imperfect but fresh cadence to action/thriller genre
Wed., Jan. 29, 2020
If Jason Bourne were a grieving trauma survivor, you’d end up with Stephanie, and “The Rhythm Section” serves as her gritty origin story.
Review: ‘The Turning’ less about answers, more about gothic horror to savor
Thu., Jan. 23, 2020
“The Turning” builds to a deeply disturbing crescendo, then pulls the rug right out from under the audience in a way that seemingly undercuts what came before, an uncovering of dark, violent secrets that offers a new spin on Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw.”
Review: Compelling tale of heroism diluted to ho-hum Hollywood thriller ‘The Last Full Measure’
Thu., Jan. 23, 2020
William H. Pitsenbarger was a Vietnam War hero. In 1966, the 21-year-old Air Force pararescue jumper, or P.J. in military parlance, descended from a helicopter – a real-life deus ex machina – into the thick of a ground battle where dozens of U.S. Army soldiers were being slaughtered in an ambush.
Review: Alpha male toxicity clouds Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Gentlemen’
Wed., Jan. 22, 2020
With “The Gentlemen,” Guy Ritchie invites the audience to belly up to his bar for a full pint of his signature brew: a wordy, bloody, Cockney-accented blend of colorful criminals. As you might expect, despite the title, these gentlemen aren’t gentlemanly in the least.
Review: ‘Bad Boys for Life’ refreshing tribute to ’90s action cinema
Wed., Jan. 15, 2020
Martin Lawrence walks away with “Bad Boys for Life,” reminding audiences what a crucial element he is to the unique mix of action and comedy that makes the “Bad Boys” work. The yin and yang, push and pull of the soft goofball Marcus (Lawrence) and his partner, the hardened Mike (Will Smith), is thrown into even starker relief when Marcus becomes a grandfather. His desire to retire clashes with Mike’s quest for vengeance after being shot by a mysterious motorcyclist, testing the whole “for life” part of the pals’ mantra. Forget boyhood; Marcus just wants to see them become a few “good men.”