Young, scruffy, motorcycle-riding Dominic (F?lix-Antoine Duval) can't stop taking photographs of himself, a trait that will eventually prompt another character in th
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Clint Eastwood's 41st film as director, Cry Macho, is much like the nonagenarian himself: slow-moving, a bit stiff around the joints, but confident and noble-hearted
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The excess and colorful bombast of the 1980's wasn't just relegated to MTV and action movies; it spread its glittering wings across all media platforms, including th
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There might well be something inherent in the warped, pressurized, attention-surplus lifestyle of a pop star that steers you toward embarking on something like The N
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Many interesting films have been made about men and their deep-seated insecurities. Whether this subject has been approached from a satirical angle in comedies like
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In 2017, Paul Schrader hit a late career peak with First Reformed, a tightly wound, disturbing application of his own theories of transcendental cinema. While the fi
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In the 1980s and '90s, my friends and I loved to see horror films at the Pacific Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, the opulent, 1500 seat movie palace where 2001: A Sp
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NOTE: This review is spoiler free.Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings didn't kick off the fourth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it sure as hell la
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In a world that grew up with the original Disney princess cartoons' romanticized views of the good, evil and life in general then later realized just how sexist tho
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There are plenty of film festivals to choose from, especially in L.A., but few take their independent spirit to heart the way that Dances With Films has and does. Th
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Historically, making movies about real-life serial killers has been problematic, to say the least. Most of them were exercises in exploitation that went straight to
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Even cliches can be compelling when they're portrayed with heart and reverence, and no movie in recent memory does this as well, and fittingly so, as Respect, the re
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