Sundance 2020 Review: ‘The Perfect Candidate’, Haifaa al-Mansour Gets Back To Her Hopeful, Empowering...
It's good to see Haifaa al-Mansour get back to basics, so to speak. Her 2012 debut, the uplifting, vitally-important coming of age film Wadjda,...
Review: ‘The Perfect Candidate’Haifaa al-Mansour Gets Back To Her Hopeful, Empowering Roots
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The Perfect Candidate is open in select area theaters now.*
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Review: ‘Dream Horse’Toni Collette And Damian Lewis Star In A Feel-Good Horse Racing Drama...
It was inevitable that 2015 Sundance Award-winning doc Dark Horse would become a feature film. How could it not? What with its true story...
Review: ‘Blast Beat’Moises And Mateo Arias Break Out As Leading Men In The Original...
If you know who the Arias brothers are, chances are you’ve grown up with them. Moises, the oldest, got his start on Hannah Montana...
Review: ‘Loki’Tom Hiddleston And Owen Wilson Are Marvel's Best Kept Buddy Comedy And Time-Hopping...
You didn't think Avengers: Infinity War was the end of the god of mischief, did you? If there's anything we should know about Loki...
Review: ‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’Salma Hayek Steals The Muthaf***in' Show In Satisfyingly Foul-Mouthed Sequel
Let's get the easy stuff out of the way first, shall we? If you liked 2017's foul-mouthed, R-rated, guns blazin' The Hitman's Bodyguard, then you're...
Review: ‘Censor’Prano Bailey-Bond's Directorial Debut Is A Low Budget Horror Paying Homage To Low...
In the 1980s, the United Kingdom was flooded with video nasties – low budget exploitation and horror films. Enid Baines (Niamh Algar) plays a...
Review: ‘Fatherhood’Kevin Hart Flexes His Dramatic Muscles In A Charming Film About A Struggling...
Kevin Hart is sometimes an acquired taste. In most (just about all) of his film, he plays the short wisecracking sidekick (usually to The...
Review: ‘Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It’A Documentary Of...
Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It is a documentary film highlighting aspects of Rita Moreno’s glamorous life as a...
Review: ‘Werewolves Within’Sam Richardson And Milana Vayntrub Are A Scream In Josh Ruben's Horror-Comedy
Don't be shocked when "UbiSoft" is credited in the opening to Josh Ruben's horror-comedy Werewolves Within. Yes, the film is based on a popular...