"Galveston" is the film equivalent of a familiar, not too special song that's been brilliantly re-arranged and performed. It's about a middle aged, possibly terminally ill enforcer for a New Orleans gangster who foils his boss'...
“My Dinner with Hervé” is a paint-by-numbers biopic that subscribes to the overused and often offensive cliché that someone’s death is required for a protagonist to straighten up and fly right. But that’s not...
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the first film that really started a buzz was from the relatively under-promoted World Dramatic Competition, Gustav Möller’s “The Guilty,” now finally opening in limited release....
I’ve been a fan of the Wolff brothers since the days of the Naked Brothers Band, the endearing “Hard Day’s Night”-style movie their mother, actress/director Polly Draper, made in 2005 with her then six and nine-year old sons....
“There are three kinds of people in this world,” says Sotheby’s Fine Arts chair Amy Cappellazzo in Nathaniel Kahn’s “The Price of Everything,” a scrappy documentary on the increasingly currency-focused...
Four years ago, Nadia Murad Basee Taha was a teenager living in a Yazidi farm community in the Sinjar district of Iraq when ISIL took over the town, murdered 600 people, and captured the women and girls as sex slaves. She escaped three months later...
There’s a conspiracy between the body and the mind to which our conscious selves are never party. Together, they make us cry when we feel nothing; they make us numb when we should want to scream and make us laugh at funerals; they kill our...
Playwright and actress Elizabeth Chomko makes her writer/director debut with a story that comes directly from her past—a poignant look back at the challenges her family faced when her grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s....
“Mid90s” is a story that comes from a very personal, if not surprising part of writer/director Jonah Hill, who went from man-child comedy protege to two-time Oscar-nominee without playing characters who broadcasted his...
Special-effects wizard Tom Savini is most famous for his collaborations with fellow Pennsylvanian George Romero, whose “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn of the Dead” are still two of the most influential modern horror...