This reviewer is now at an age where he’s seen more teen coming-of-age movies than he can possibly remember. Love, Simon is yet another entry in the genre that, story-wise, is formatted exactly like others of its ilk. The exception…
The Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman recently won Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. It is a picture that effectively details the prejudices displayed against a transgender woman and her continuing attempts to be treated with dignity by…
The 1962 book, A Wrinkle in Time, was one that completely passed me by growing up. However, it has developed a fervent following, now large enough to warrant a $105 million dollar cinematic adaptation. What transpires is noble in its…
As singers we usually need to present a total package. Across all genres image and looking the part is important. Even in the classical world and opera in particular, there has been a growing trend in the last 10 years…
A word of warning about the new sci-fi thriller Annihilation… if you’re expecting a straight-forward narrative adventure, you’re probably not going to like it. The latest from writer/director Alex Garland is adapted from a book series. Frankly, it doesn’t have…
Aardman Animation and founder/director Nick Park are responsible for some great little animated efforts of recent years, including the Wallace & Gromit series and feature film, the Shaun the Sheep spin-off and movie, and Chicken Run. Early Man is the…
It seems like it has been only a short time since a superhero film opened in cinemas… wait, it has only been a few months since the last title. Regardless, audiences should prepare to be inundated once again with the…
The 15:17 to Paris is a biopic that chronicles the actions of three US military servicemen who thwarted an assailant on a passenger train bound for Paris in 2015. Of course, the three men involved, Spenser Stone, Anthony Sadler and…
With the Academy Awards on the horizon, Landmark Cinemas is releasing a pair of programs showcasing some of the harder-to-see nominees. Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Animation presents a great collection of little films that come highly recommended. It’s a…
Telling stories using a short narrative format is remarkably difficult. Twenty minutes isn’t a lot of time to develop characters and the films have to tell their stories in an economical manner without coming across as too blunt and obvious…