Good intentions don't always pay off in 'War Story' — a...
With recent headlines of journalists killed or under threat to be killed in war zones, the trauma of the conflict for those journalists, who are civilians,...
Starfucker and Casiokids break out of tiny stage with big sounds...
Note: This is but a quick and dirty summary of the night of the concert. More in-depth stories on both Casiokids and Starfucker will...
Ty Segall channels the essence of rock 'n' roll with 'Manipulator'...
Despite what you may have seen at last night’s MTV Music Video Awards, classic rock ‘n’ roll is not going to ever go away....
Best movies of 2018 – first half with Annihilation leading
Here we are at the halfway point of 2018, where I make sure to have to have at the ready a working list of...
Dark Phoenix: An Independent Ethos take on the Hollywood tent-pole
Dark Phoenix, the latest X-Men movie, is getting roasted by critics, and none of the pull quotes and hot takes this critic has seen...
‘Moonrise Kingdom’: a different kind of Wes Anderson film
Moonrise Kingdom is not your typical Wes Anderson film. As a long-time fan, I have always thought his films existed in some hyper-real dimension of...
'Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case' explores Chinese artist's conceptual protest against...
It has been almost two years since Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry hit theaters (read my review). For a comprehensive film on the Chinese dissident...
The Untamed confronts primal desires through sci-fi/horror tentacle sex fable —...
Despite its surreal science-fiction horror sensibilities, there’s no denying what Mexican director Amat Escalante and co-screenwriter Gibrán Portela have brewed up with The Untamed...
Family Drama and Secrets in Landline are not enough to make...
Landline is a family drama set in Manhattan in the 1990s. As the title alludes, this is a time before cell phones, so things...
The Trip to Spain brings back the familiar with graceful self-awareness...
While the multiplexes have their Marvel movies and its universe, the art house has the universe of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as directed...