Of all the post-“Taken” “can you believe this old character actor has moves like that?” action flicks, 2021’s “Nobody” was a particularly effective curiosity. There, the central surprise came from sketch and improv comedian-turned-dramatic-actor-turned-badass Bob
The Locarno Film Festival never ceases to surprise me. The eclectic programming makes it so that you’re never seeing two films that are wholly alike. In this dispatch, for instance, are three works that couldn’t
To vibe with “The Rainmaker,” you first have to be down with its network, USA. The basic cable standard is not known for its cutting-edge or award-winning content (like, say, FX). But it has produced
★★★ There are echoes of the Jordan Peele in Zach Cregger’s ascendancy from sitcom frequenter to horror messiah. Indeed, much as was the case for Peale’s Get Out, Cregger already finds himself proclaimed the voice
Filmed in the wake of a revolution that gave way to a military coup, Hind Meddeb’s powerfully poetic documentary “Sudan, Remember Us” introduces to the world a generation of Sudanese activists, street poets, and ordinary
★★★★ There’s a generation out there for whom a sequel to 2003 body swap comedy Freaky Friday enjoys the same nostalgia premium as did the return of Star Wars in 2015’s The Force Awakens to
It’s August, so the leopard is ready to roar again. In its 78th year, the Locarno Film Festival, located in Switzerland by the blissful Lake Maggiore, returns with a slate that’s as hot as the
Look, I don’t mean to sound 100 years old when I say this, but they really don’t make movies like they used to. Truth be told, I don’t really think that notion applies to most
★★★★ Play it straight. That was always the key. Certainly, it was what made Leslie Neilsen, an erstwhile straight actor, such a gift in the casting of 1988’s The Naked Gun: From the Files of
Each episode of Noah Hawley’s brilliant “Alien: Earth” opens with what could be called an overture. As the title takes shape (much like the original, groundbreaking Ridley Scott film), images flash across the screen as