I would never have guessed the next documentary about a well known actor coming down the Hollywood pipeline would involve Val Kilmer, but here we are. Yes it can be a bit self indulgent at times, but it’s also an … Continue reading Review: ‘Val’

Inside a burning car as windows crack. The vertigo of a swirling plane underwater. A cleanly framed shootout in a dilapidated apartment building. These are the exciting set-pieces that keep Stefano Solima’s adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novel chugging along. And … Continue reading Review: ‘Without Remorse”

Films about addiction call to Hollywood. They give performers the opportunity to linger down in the gutter for a bit. Or they give full permission to develop a performance based on tics and nervous scratching. In short, it’s a method … Continue reading Review: ‘Four Good Days’

Nikole Beckwith’s Together Together isn’t a romantic comedy about a pregnancy, but a comedy that happens to involve a pregnancy. There’s a big difference. Here is a film that draws its gentle humor not from a couple struggling to re-define … Continue reading Review: ‘Together Together’

Based on his own short story and written by acclaimed novelist Lev Grossman, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is tailor made for the young adult/teen audience lapping up the modestly scaled features and Netflix-budgeted mini-series aimed at their hungry … Continue reading Review: ‘The Map of Tiny Perfect Things’