Quantcast
Sunday, June 21, 2026

Screen

Screen

Film Shorts // August 4-10, 2021

OPENING   Escape From Mogadishu (NR) The title doesn’t sound like it belongs to a Korean film, but the movie dramatizes the real-life ordeal over two...

The Suicide Squad: You Kill Me

Let’s all just pretend that the original Suicide Squad movie never happened, okay? I’m so ready to do that, especially now that I’ve seen...

Annette: La La La Means I Love You

Leos Carax! You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to write about this French filmmaker whose view of life and movies is...

Film Shorts // July 28-August 3, 2021

OPENING   Ishq: Not a Love Story (NR) This Telugu-language remake of a 2019 Malayalam romantic thriller stars Teja Sajja, Priya Prakash Varrier, and Ravindra Vijay....

Green Knight: Headless Horseman

I’ve previously aired my issues with British color-blind casting, but it’s doing one good thing: It’s turning Dev Patel into an unstoppable force. The...

Stillwater : Marseillaise

Last week, we had a movie about a straight, working-class father struggling to deal with his child’s homosexuality. This week comes another one, though...

Film Shorts // July 21-27, 2021

OPENING   Bo Burnham: Inside (NR) The standup comic directs himself performing a one-man show on various sets during the pandemic. (Opens Friday) Midnight in the Switchgrass...

Long Ways From Home

Pride Month was last month, but it’s this week that two movies about gay people reach our theaters. We start with I Carry You...

We Are Lady Parts: Rock and Allah

A story with a point of view that you haven’t heard before is one thing, but when it’s expressed with so much confidence, that...

Pig in the City

I have here a movie called Pig, a suspense thriller in which the stringy-haired protagonist stares into space and says, “Who has my pig?”...