Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces (A24)
A wonderful documentary by Morgan Neville explores the life and times of the fascinating and multidimensional Steve Martin.
Working mostly from voice overs and vintage film clips, the ... Continue Reading →
Bob Marley: One Love – The Biopic That Mostly Succeeds
Packing the politics, the history, the love and the music into a couple hours remains a challenge
The interest in legacy music cuts across generations. This is certainly apparent ... Continue Reading →
The Greatest Night in Pop
Musicians holding concerts and supporting causes goes back a very long time, but certainly a tip of the hat to George Harrison for bringing the effort into broad public consciousness ... Continue Reading →
Infinity Pool
Anyone was under age and able to sneak into a theater to see early David Cronenberg films probably never forgot the experiences, and likely followed him as he began to receive mainstream ... Continue Reading →
Zone of Interest
Based loosely on the Martin Amis novel of the same name, this film is a stunning, chilling and amazing accomplishment. It begins by telling the seemingly mundane story of a relatively ... Continue Reading →
American Fiction
American Fiction is a an excellent, well-crafted and subversive film.
It tells the story of a Black author and sometime professor (there’s certainly a lot of films about professors ... Continue Reading →
Ferrari
I’ve always been a bit befuddled and amused by the growing acclaim around Adam Driver, but in this film (notwithstanding his almost perfect name for the titular role), I can see the ... Continue Reading →
The Boys in the Boat – Rocky on the Water
I have yet to do a statistical analysis, but it feels like there are more films drawn from nonfiction sources these days. Perhaps truth is stranger than fiction, but it can certainly ... Continue Reading →
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