Films

Steven Love and Natascha McElhone in Carmen. Photo: Courtesy Falkun Films / Aiken Heart Films
Films

A commonwealth of great cinema

By Michael Snyder

With so much acclaim earned by so many movies and actors from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, India, South Africa, and New Zealand over the decades, it would be fair to sa... Read More
Films

Review: ‘The Seven Faces of Jane’

By Marina Times

Jane is a remarkable woman with a unique story to tell. She is a walking paradox, with seven distinct personalities living within her. Though born with dissociative identity disor... Read More
Banks Repeta and Jaylin Webb star in Armageddon Time. Photo: Anne Joyce / Focus Features
Films

Exalting the dozen best movies of 2022 

By Michael Snyder

In a year replete with horrors big and small, it’s fitting that so many frighteningly creative horror movies were released during the past dozen months. Not that there’s room ... Read More
Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell in Spirited, now streaming on Apple TV+. Photo: Courtesy of Apple TV Plus
Films

Happily ever after for the holidays 

By Michael Snyder

According to the perennial tune, it’s the most wonderful time of the year — and we’re in the middle of it, complete with family gatherings that can be nourishing or trying. ... Read More
Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tár in Tár. Photo: Courtesy of Focus Features
Films

The women in film who rise and roar

By Michael Snyder

Since its inception, the movie industry has had a recurring problem with the marginalization of women. Actors never wanted for strong lead roles, while actresses struggled to find... Read More
Left to right: Kathy Najimy, Bette Midler, and Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Pocus 2. Photo: Courtesy Walt Disney Studios
Films

Screen scares in the air

By Michael Snyder

When autumn starts to creep in and a certain haunt-ridden end-of-October holiday approaches, the movie and television industries invariably roll out the horror. The powers that be... Read More
A scene from Moonage Daydream. Photo: COURTESY OF NEON
Films

Bowie’s stellar trek from Stardust to ‘Blackstar’

By Michael Snyder

David Bowie, the sleek British musician and actor whose prodigious, multifaceted career achieved liftoff with his mid-1970s glam-rock incarnation Ziggy Stardust, left this plane o... Read More
Alan Cumming provides the visuals to the off-camera Brian/Brandon in My Old School. Photo: courtesy Magnolia Pictures
Films

Back to school days

By Michael Snyder

Now that some fall school semesters start in August rather than the traditional post-Labor Day window, it’s fitting that filmmaker Jono McLeod’s clever, creative documentary M... Read More
Mark Rylance in The Phantom of the Open. Photo credit Nick Wall. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
Films

Biopics: Blithe and biting 

Prestige productions tell human stories worth your time
By Michael Snyder

Two 20th-century sons of England, separated by class and circumstance, make for two wildly different new movies. The contrast between the lives of Maurice Flitcroft and Siegfried ... Read More
Joanna Lumley and Danielle Macdonald in Falling For Figaro. COURTESY OF IFC FILMS
Films

Mostly British Film Festival is back in vogue

By Michael Snyder

Cheerio! Pip-pip! Huzzah! Those joyous expletives may be more than a little out of date in England, but they merit revival in San Francisco this month. The Mostly British Film Fes... Read More
Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza. Photo: Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures Inc.
Films

Corralling the best movies of 2021

By Michael Snyder

If action-heavy blockbusters are all that’s keeping theaters on life support, it’s a good thing to also have art houses, video-on-demand, and streaming services providing acce... Read More
There's no such thing as too many Spideys in No Way Home. Photo: Sony pictures
Films

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ is where the heroic heart is

By Erin Maxwell

Warning: This review contains lots of Spidey spoilers. Spider-Man: No Way Home is the third installment for the Tom Holland-led webslinger saga, but it’s more than just the l... Read More
Films

Six films worth watching right now

Uplifting documentaries to get you through the winter
By Joe Castrovinci

Covid got you down? Not looking forward to winter and — if we’re lucky — lots of rain? Or maybe you’re back in the office and miss the good old days of working from home? ... Read More
Adam Driver and Lady Gaga star in Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci. photo: Fabio Lovino © 2021 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Films

Stellar star turns bring real to reel

Recent docudramas and biopics offer impressive performances
By Michael Snyder

It may seem like every other movie released lately is based on a true story, and that perception is not too far off. Even if the industry has become over reliant on such adaptatio... Read More
From left: Podcast (Logan Kim) and Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) fire a proton pack for the first time in Columbia Pictures' Ghostbusters: Afterlife. PHOTO: Courtesy of Sony Pictures
Films

To scream, perchance to laugh

By Michael Snyder

If you happen to be a journalist or critic on the entertainment beat, the imminent arrival of All Hallows’ Eve encourages coverage of scary movies — the classic and the newly ... Read More

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