Quantcast
Friday, April 10, 2026
And So It Goes opens Friday.

Film Shorts

Catherine Martin’s duds for The Great Gatsby are in the running for the Oscar for Best Costume Design.

Oscar’s Hidden Gold

The Moore We See …

Screen

Screen

Oscar’s Hidden Gold

A certain contemporary jazz musical looks set to run roughshod over the major awards on Oscar night, which makes my annual piece that much...

Morgan Has Broken

Maybe you saw The Witch and wondered what else its young star, Anya Taylor-Joy, might be capable of. Morgan represents your first chance to...

Film Shorts

OPENING: After.Life (R) Christina Ricci stars in this supernatural thriller as a young woman who may or may not have died in a car accident...
Black lives matter: David Oyelowo (back row, center) leads a nonviolent protest in Selma.

Infinite Hope

I always write with one eye on how history will judge the movies I’m writing about. From that standpoint, I have a sneaking suspicion...

Polite Society: Is This the Ria Life?

In 2021, I reviewed the TV comedy series We Are Lady Parts. That was the creation of Nida Manzoor, but since then, the show...

Babylon: Hollywood Endings

My favorite film of all time is Singin’ in the Rain. It doesn’t take a film historian to see that Damien Chazelle holds that...

Wake Up Dead Man: Murder on the Church Floor

I don’t know whether to call Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery a Christian film. It’s about Christianity, at any rate. We...

Film Shorts // February 14-20, 2024

OPENING   Altered Reality (NR) Charles Agron stars in this science-fiction film about a man given a chance to try a miracle drug that can fix...

Avatar: Flame War

Avatar: Fire and Ash opens with a filmed statement by James Cameron and his actors warning against the dangers of artificial intelligence taking over the...
Eva Green has two swords and an army of Persians at her back in 300: Rise of an Empire.

300 and Two

Hollywood loves to throw up sequels to successful movies, and some of them do better than others when it comes to standing on their...