The Speculative ‘Sound of My Voice’
I have a question for Greta Gerwig, the odd naturalistic beauty who has bounded out of the Mumblecore underworld into the bright and glaring lights of mainstream attention, while still skipping back and forth across the great divide. ...
Writing and Romance On the War Front
HBO’s latest television film follows the
professional and romantic journey of literary great Ernest Hemingway and
legendary journalist Martha Gellhorn. Starring Clive Owen and Nicole
Kidman as the title characters, Hemingway & Gellhorn is on at 9
p.m. on Mondays.
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2012 Summer Film Preview
Typical sequels dominate the summer slate, but smaller festival favorites offer hope
The visions are as fresh as the day they entered my impressionable head. As a child weaned at the entertaining teat of 1980s blockbusters like Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Ghostbusters and Back to the Future, I have a soft spot in my movie-snob heart for a good summer popcorn movie. ...
Summer TV Preview
Ever since the days of Stick Stickly (Nickelodeon’s popsicle stick seasonal host of the ’90s), I’ve loved me some summer television. When you get burnt out on bikinis and barbeques, crank up the AC, crack open a beer and check out these summer shows. ...
Retiring to India in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Based on Deborah Moggach’s novel These Foolish Things, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel imagines a final adventure for a group of English men and women — one last hurrah where they can get away from the familiar day-to-day they’ve come to know all too well, or their busy families caught up in living in the digital now, which in some cases is hopelessly unknowable to their elders. ...
Yellow Submarine Surfaces in Theaters One More Time
Sometimes a film event comes along that is so special, we owe it to our readers to present the review in a form fitting the auspicious nature of the release. That is certainly the case with Rave Theater’s regional screenings of Yellow Submarine, a classic that will unspool, likely for the last time, in theaters. ...
Marley (Review)
Reggae legend is straightforwardly rendered in this fascinating documentary
Why does Bob Marley — the man and his music — still resonant more than 30 years after his death? That’s a question director Kevin MacDonald tries to unpack in this straightforwardly rendered, often fascinating documentary about the Reggae legend. ...
Damsels in Distress (Review)
Whit Stillman’s much-anticipated film arrives with the writer/director’s singular voice intact
Whit Stillman creates a place that seems hermetically sealed off from the rest of the world — cinematographer Doug Emmett notably bathes the proceedings in unnaturally bright light — a place that posits the major problem in contemporary social life as “the tendency to always seek someone cooler than yourself” without a whiff of irony. ...
The Avengers: Some Assembly Required
Back in 1963, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby probably didn’t have as much trouble creating Earth’s Mightiest Heroes as Hollywood has had in bringing these super duper dudes (and one dark and mysterious dudette) to the screen. ...









