This week’s roundup includes a must-see new film by Italian master Marco Bellocchio, “Kidnapped,” premiering this week at the New York Film Festival; “The Royal Hotel,” starring the three-time Emmy winner from “Ozark,” Julia Garner; and fine new documentaries about...
Author - Kevin Filipski
This week’s roundup includes several interesting new documentaries (including an incisive one from Argentina, at Film Forum in NYC); classic French short films; and a trio of new features: the thriller “Cobweb,” Italian family drama “L’Immensita” and redemption flick...
This week’s roundup features new UHD rereleases of two seminal films: William Friedkin’s 1973 horror classic “The Exorcist” and Orson Welles’ unheralded 1962 Kafka adaptation, “The Trial”; also of note are four recommended new documentaries: “American—An Odyssey to...
Basically about three actors sitting around on a boat while their movie, “Jaws,” is taking longer than ever to make because the mechanical shark rarely works, “The Shark Is Broken”—written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon—is a decent enough diversion. Ian is the son of...
This week’s roundup features—in theaters, streaming and on disc—documentaries about a Japanese guitarist and Zeppelin freak (“Mr. Jimmy”), photographers of Elizabeth II (“Portrait of the Queen”), a comprehensive cinema chronicle (“The Complete History of Film”) and...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new films, including the latest Liam Neeson adventure, “Retribution,” the horror parody “The Blackening” and a provocative new doc, “Blue Box.” In-Theater Releases of the WeekRetribution (Lionsgate) Liam Neeson is back...
This week’s roundup features new films about strong women who became almost mythic in stature: congressional representative Bella Abzug (the documentary “Bella!”), Israeli prime minister Golda Meir (the biopic “Golda”) and French philosopher Simone Weil (the biopic...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new releases, both in theaters (“Passages,” “Love Life” and “Winter Kills”) and on disc (“Fast X,” “Broken Mirrors” and “Other People’s Children”). In-Theater/Streaming Releases of the WeekPassages (MUBI) Ira Sachs has...
This week’s roundup includes as interesting new films from Germany (“Afire”), Spain (“The Beasts”) and America (“The Restless Hungarian” and “The Unknown Country”) as well as three vintage films making their 4K/UHD debuts (“East of Eden,” “Enter the Dragon” and “Rio...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new releases on Blu-ray, including HBO’s latest post-apocalyptic series “The Last of Us,” the offbeat Holocaust drama, “Persian Lessons,” and the even stranger Nazi-revenge thriller, “Sisu.” Blu-ray Releases of the...
