FILM REVIEW: YELLOW BIRD
Multi-hyphenate Angus Benfield lacks the directorial instincts to do his own lead performance justice.
FILM REVIEW: THE COUNTRY CLUB
Caddyshack has nothing to fear from this unfocused comedy of class disparity and golf.
FILM REVIEW: ONE FOR ALL – THE DJ CHRIS VILLA STORY
A nice, clean-living DJ is clearly talented, but not especially interesting outside the club.
FILM REVIEW: DISCONTINUED
Laurence Fishburne’s son Langston proves as adept as dad in guiding characters through a simulated reality.
FILM REVIEW: WILD BEAUTY: MUSTANG SPIRIT OF THE WEST
(IMAGE: Winterstone Pictures) Rating: 3 out of 4 While making her 2020 film, Black Beauty, in the Onaqui Mountains of Utah, director Ashley Avis became aware of the startling way wild horses were being managed (or mismanaged) in places across the Western United...
FILM REVIEW: MY SISTER’S WEDDING
Amiable stress-based comedy of nuptial complications just needed to be funnier.
STREAMING REVIEW: BACKWARDS FACES
A multiverse movie on a micro-budget is one of the year’s best.
FILM REVIEW: THE GREEN OAK GUARDIAN
An actor tries to impress an indie comics creator, in a story that would work better in the ’90s.
FILM REVIEW: BURT REYNOLDS – THE LAST INTERVIEW
An hourlong final interview by the icon, with some unnecessary added padding to make it a movie.
STREAMING REVIEW: BAD ROMANCE
This hipster noir spoof can’t survive its obnoxious lead character