Movie talk

Luke Greenfield’s “Half Brothers” is a tale of two stories. One track gives the movie its title: two half-brothers who could not be more different meet for the first time when their father is dying. Because this is a comedy, disaster ensues. Their father dies suddenly, and because their old man loved puzzles, he sends…

“The moon is full and we must harness its power.” IFC Films has released a new US trailer for the kooky relationship comedy Blithe Spirit, a big screen adaptation of the classic stage play of the same name. This opens first in the UK this month, then in the US in February. An over-the-top spiritualist…

Until several years ago, I had no idea the extent of The Ventures‘ influence going far beyond their emblematic surf rock. They have more cultural clout than I ever would have given them credit for. The Ventures: Stars on Guitars is yet another opportunity to solidify their well-deserved legacy. It’s also supposedly the first documentary…

Sacha Baron Cohen and Ryan Long once shared a similar comic spirit. Not anymore. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonCohen, the rapscallion behind 2007’s “Borat,” now embraces Big Tech Censorship. Even worse? The British comic’s newest release, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” is as politically toothless as your average Stephen Colbert rant. Read moreRobert…

A walk through Pyrgi, an island town with a population around 1,000, is a colorful tour of geometric designs and motifs. As one of the “mastic villages” that once made the picturesque Greek island of Chios renowned and rich—the sap obtained exclusively from its mastic trees to make medicines, foods, liqueurs, and natural chewing gum…

When the pandemic hit, it halted the planned second season of HBO’s Emmy-winning “Euphoria,” resulting in this week’s minimized Christmas episode titled simply “Euphoria Part 1: Rue.” Filmed during the pandemic, the show that’s often so full of characters and settings that one can lose track has been reduced to a two-hander between a girl…

Two contradictory episodes open Steven J. Mihaljevich‘s The Xrossing, the lyrical suburban symphony that will be making its Australian premiere at the Revelation Perth Film Festival’s physical fest this year. Beginning with the discovery of the dead body of the 18-year old teenager Tracey Myers in Perth’s eastern hills, Shane Piggott‘s eclipsing drone footage pivots to…

Until the mid-16th-century, Europe’s minting techniques had not progressed from ancient Greek coinage, which was struck by hand using dies and a hammer. Eventually, this method became ineffective as a large amount of bullion was imported from across the world and the mints had trouble keeping up. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho…

In the congested traffic along a prominent Decatur thoroughfare, commuters may notice an unusual garden of giant metal sculptures, and a man playfully encouraging them to wake up from their lulled complacency. According the Clark Ashton, the exhibition’s sculptor and designer, the commuters are part of the “mechanical river,” and his garden, towers, and metal…

Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme truly are the Queens of Christmas. From their hit traveling stage tours of holidays past to making a memorable drag cameo in Happiest Season (the year’s hottest Christmas movie), what else could this dynamic duo have up their sequined sleeves? Why, their infallible chemistry and irrepressible talents in the form of…

On a stroll down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile/High Street, visitors can see some of the world’s first skyscrapers. That part of the capital’s Old Town was once encircled with a stone wall, which meant that the only way to increase housing capacity for a growing population was to build up. But this construction occurred at a…

The Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre is located at the Oldbridge House, on a site surrounded by restored Victorian walled gardens. Traveling to this area, allows visitors to appreciate the beautiful Irish countryside. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Oldbridge House is a recently restored 18th-century mansion sitting on the banks…

★★★★ Directed by #ZeinaDurra Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #ZeinaDurra Starring #AndreaRiseborough #KarimSelah Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by ,,Matt Weiner Faulkner wrote that the past is never dead… it’s not even past. British aid worker Hana (Andrea Riseborough) is hellbent…

For the past six weeks, HBO’s The Undoing kept murder mystery fans, Nicole Kidman devotees, and past Big Little Lies watchers on the edges of their seats. We impatiently awaited the answer of ‘whodunnit?’ as every episode revealed more and more dark secrets, and we at one point suspected every single character. The last episode, though,…

This week, Paramount Home Video releases a Blu-ray of Robert Altman’s “Popeye,” one of the most unusual pictures in a filmography that’s already as far from conventional as Hollywood bodies of work get. For the loose, often acerbic Altman to take on a musical movie focused on an eccentric group of fantasy characters that originated…

“I’m sorry I’m late”, I say when I’m connected through to Karim Saleh. We’re here to discuss his new movie Luxor, in which he – alongside Andrea Riseborough – stars. I had gotten a call the exact moment I was due to call him, and so I was held up. “Ah, we’re here now”, he…

Remember this day. December 3rd, 2020. For today is the beginning of a new era in Hollywood. Warner Bros announced major, game-changing news: ALL of their big releases in 2021 will be available on HBO Max and in movie theaters on the same day. All of them. Every single one – from Dune to Godzilla…

The vaccines are coming! The vaccines are coming! Don’t tell that to Warner Bros. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe mega-studio just announced its entire 2021 film slate will bow in theaters AND HBO Max at the very same time. Can’t wait to see the “Dune” remake? The next installment of the “Matrix”…

“Jazz is dead.” So says The Cry of Jazz. “It cannot grow, it can only repeat itself, and so doing, it is stagnant: and so doing, it dies.” The Cry of Jazz was first shown in 1959. Confined within a lean thirty-four minutes, the film explains in philosophical language why jazz could have only come…

It was an unplanned detour that started the whole thing. On a lazy winter afternoon in January 2019, photographer Hemant Chaturvedi walked over to Allahabad University, an architectural landmark from the 1800s in the northern Indian city, to take a few images. En route, he remembered that there was an old, single-screen movie theater in…