Full disclosure: most of my commentary on this show does not come from firsthand experience, but rather from secondhand tales. Canada Shore continues the spirit of the iconic Jersey Shore, transplanting the formula to a town that even some Canadians may not have heard...
Charlie (Owen Wilson) is a loyal golden retriever to Danny, a shy boy who feels most connected to him. Charlie and Danny have done everything together, growing older side by side. As Charlie reaches his silver years, something unexpected happens: he finds himself...
There are great movies every year and, depending on who you are, some years have more great films than others. For me personally, this year around 40 of the 100 films that I saw I would recommend to different kinds of people. All of those 40 deserve a shoutout but I...
Cannes regular (though not with this film) Jim Jarmusch tackles a three-part anthology film full of nuance and marked by a particular cadence. The characters have walls between them, and Jarmusch lets those walls become the drama. While all three parts share similar...
The Choral is very much an ensemble piece where we don't really see the journey of one person but rather, becomes a collective experience. It starts in a small town where the local Choral is putting on their new show in the midst of World War I. Even as auditions wrap...
Cannes Palm D'Or nominee Katouther Ben Hania has moved between narrative and documentary work for her past couple of films. For that reason, it is natural for her to bring the two styles together. In The Voice of Hind Rajab, she blends dramatized scenes with actual...
In the midst of unfulfilling lives, four friends reunite with Griffin (Paul Rudd), their most unfulfilled friend who brings a crazy idea to the group: to remake the 1997 film, Anaconda. Doug (Jack Black), Griffin's closest friend, has been an aspiring filmmaker since...
From box office phenomenon Paul Feig, The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney as Millie, a young woman with a troubled past and present who gets a job with an uber-rich family. The head of the household appears to be Nina (Amanda Seyfried), a woman who appears quite...
Jay Kelly is the film where director Noah Baumbach attempts to reconcile the grand sprawling aspirations that he first exercised in his last film, White Noise with his honest, very personal character work in films like Mistress America and Frances Ha, both of which I...