Film Review: Waves Teen Drama Burns Off A Lot Of Emotion And A Ton Of Energy After a couple of well-regarded art house efforts (the stunningly observational character study Krisha and the brazenly minimalist horror drama It Comes At [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 12, 2019 Read More The kids are … Well
Film Review: Fantastic Fungi Scientific Documentary Sings The Praises Of Our Fungal Friends Consider the humble mushroom. Go ahead. I’ll wait. … That’s more or less the premise behind Fantastic Fungi, a hagiographic documentary aimed at [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 05, 2019 Read More Yup
Film Review: Knives Out Old-Fashioned Murder Mystery Plays By The Rules Before he graduated to big-time Hollywood status directing 2017’s Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, filmmaker Rian Johnson started out his feature [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 28, 2019 Read More Someone here is a murderer!
Film Review: Frankie European Idyll Appears Comfortable In First Gear Award-winning, non-Hollywood filmmaker Ira Sachs (The Delta, Forty Shades of Blue, Married Life, Keep the Lights On, Love Is Strange, Little Men) returns [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 21, 2019 Read More “Next year
Film Review: No Safe Spaces Conservatives Cry Over “Cancel Culture” The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws concerning an establishment of religion. It goes on to [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 14, 2019 Read More Eh ... seems perfectly rational.
Film Review: Pain & Glory Celebrated Spanish Filmmaker Offers “Autofictional” Story Of Celebrated Spanish Filmmaker Director Pedro Almodóvar and actor Antonio Banderas have been working together since 1982’s Labyrinth of Passion. On the occasion of their newest collaboration [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 07, 2019 Read More Banderas
Film Review: Jojo Rabbit Hitler Was The Funny One? Who Knew? Comedies set in and around World War II Germany are thin on the ground. People are, understandably, still a bit touchy about Nazis [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 31, 2019 Read More A boy and his führer
Film Review: Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil Revisionist Fairy Tale Returns With Familiar Sequel Back in the late ’90s and early ’00s, the Disney studio was busy cranking out a string of cheaply produced, direct-to-video sequels to [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 24, 2019 Read More Jolie
Film Review: Honeyland To Bee, Or Not To Bee: That Is The Question What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words “Macedonian beekeepers”? … Nothing, right? It’s OK. Beekeeping in Macedonia [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 17, 2019 Read More Hatidze
Film Review: Joker “Revolutionary” Origin Story Reimagines Itself Back Into Familiar Territory Less than a week into release and the superhero-adjacent film Joker is already igniting controversy—from fears that misguided fans would shoot up theaters [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 10, 2019 Read More Joaquin