Author - Kevin Filipski

Digital Week – March 4

This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new films: “Wuthering Heights” with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi; entries in the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema series (“The Stranger” and “Two Pianos”); “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t,” the second sequel in the caper...

Digital Week – February 18

This week’s roundup includes reviews of films both old and new, from re-releases of classics “All the President’s Men,” “Ben-Hur” and some Ernest Lubitsch musicals to the Oscar-nominated “Song Sung Blue” and intimate Italian drama “Trifole.”  4K/UHD Releases of...

Digital Week – February 11

This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new films: Rachel McAdams in Sam Raimi’s “Send Help”; the Iraqi Oscar contender, “The President’s Cake”; the stark “Acts of Love”; and the twisty “Misdirection.” In-Theater Releases of the Week  Send Help (20thCentury...

Digital Week – January 28

This week’s roundup includes reviews of movies in theaters (the Oscar-nominated “Arco” and the melancholic drama “H Is for Hawk”); on disc (the Oscar-nominated “One Battle After Another” and the fifth volume of restored international features from Criterion and ...

Digital Week – January 14

This week’s roundup includes reviews of new releases: another Sydney Sweeney vehicle (“Christy”); another post-WWII drama (“Nuremberg”); the final appearance of actor Udo Kier (“My Neighbor Adolf”); another Donald Westlake adaptation (“No Other Choice”); and a...

Digital Week – January 7

This week’s roundup includes reviews of “The Housemaid” with Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney; the heartbreaking documentary “Holding Liat”; “Black Phone 2” with Ethan Hawke; “Visions” with Diane Kruger; and “Good Fortune” with Keanu Reeves and Keke Palmer.  In...

Digital Week – December 17

This week’s roundup includes new releases in theaters and on streaming (“Blue Moon” with Ethan Hawke, the Norwegian family drama “Sentimental Value”); on UHD/4K (“David Byrne’s American Utopia,” “Boogie Nights”); and on Blu-ray (the tragic “Martin Roumagnac”). In...

Digital Week – December 10

This week’s roundup includes reviews of new films including an Oscar frontrunner, “Hamnet”; a very promising first feature by Slovenia’s Urška Djukić, “Little Trouble Girls”; Lucy Liu giving the performance of her career in “Rosemead”; and Julia Roberts in a messy...

Digital Week – December 3

My latest roundup includes reviews of a new French film with Jodie Foster (“A Private Life”), a romcom with real-life couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick (“The Best You Can”), the latest Stephen King adaptation (“The Long Walk”), and even a rockin’ Christmas EP...

Digital Week – November 25

This week’s roundup includes reviews of new movies (Diane Lane in “Anniversary,” Del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” British swimming biopic “Vindication Swim,” the latest “Conjuring” entry) along with an Oscar-winning re-release (James Ivory’s adaptation of “Howards End”)...