BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.6 – ‘Piñata’
For your consideration. We’ve been getting more flashbacks than usual this season, although I’m not sure all of them are particularly revelatory. “Piñata” opened...
10 Highlights of the 75th Venice International Film Festival
The 75th Venice Film Festival (VFF) drew criticism with only having one female-directed film out of the 21 in competition, but, in front of...
CRAZY RICH ASIANS (2018)
A native New Yorker travels to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's wealthy family...
COLD WATER (1994)
A rebellious teenage couple escape the rigid order suffocating them, seeking sanctuary to cultivate their artistic expression and live free.
PREDATOR 2 (1990)
Amidst a territorial gang war in 1997, a deadly alien hunter stalks the criminal gangs of Los Angeles, and only a veteran LAPD cop can stop it...
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
REVENGE (2017)
Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting. A violent lesson for three wealthy married men.
BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.5 – ‘Quite a Ride’
Shredded future. We’re accustomed to the season-opening glimpses of Jimmy McGill’s (Bob Odenkirk) future, working under an alias at a Cinnabon, but “Quite a...
GHOST STORIES (2017)
A skeptical professor embarks on an investigation into three unexplained cases of apparitions...
THE FLY (1958)
A genius scientist invents a teleportation device for the good of mankind, but his careless experimentation ends in tragedy.
2018: Summer Blockbuster Appraisal
Thanos clicked with Marvel fans; The Rock eventually crumbled; big monsters ate rivals; superheroes flew higher; Star Wars's box office was 'so low'; the impossible Tom Cruise proved unmissable, and never underestimate an Abba sing-a-long...
UPGRADE (2018)
Set in a near-future where technology controls nearly all aspects of life, a technophobe has his world turned upside-down, and his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant...