Author - Kevin Filipski

Digital Week – November 19

This week’s digital roundup includes reviews of new and vintage films, series and concerts, from Diane Keaton’s lone documentary, 1987’s “Heaven,” and a 1982 doc about director Werner Herzog, “Burden of Dreams,” to a 1995 Luciano Pavarotti concert and a pair of 2023...

Digital Week – November 12

This week’s Digital Week roundup includes reviews of several new films (“Nouvelle Vague,” “Edda,” “A House of Dynamite,” “Downton Abbey—The Grand Finale”) and re-releases of older films, both classic (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) and not “(1955’s “Lady...

Digital Week – October 22

This week’s Digital Week roundup includes a couple of interesting French films (“Auction” and “Niki”), an excellent Iranian film (“It Was Just an Accident”), and a pair of middling American films (“Weapons” and “The Mastermind”). In-Theater Releases of the WeekAuction...

Digital Week – October 15

This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new films on disc, including the Brad Pitt car-racing vehicle, “F1,” and the latest twisty tale from France’s Francois Ozon, “When Fall Is Coming.” There’s also the 4K release of the complete “Nightmare on Elm Street”...

Digital Week – October 8

This week’s Digital Week roundup includes reviews of several new films—documentaries about comedian-podcaster Marc Maron (“Are We Good?”) and the right-wing book-banning movement (“The Librarians”); a chilly thriller (“Bone Lake”); a strange Marion Cotillard vehicle...

Digital Week – September 30

This week’s Digital Week roundup includes reviews of several films—including the bumpy new “One Battle After Another” with Leonardo DiCaprio and the blistering 2005 French drama, “The Beat That My Heart Skipped”—as well as recent opera/operetta productions of a Gilbert...

Digital Week – September 24

My latest roundup includes reviews of several new films on disc and in theaters, including the “Superman” reboot by director James Gunn, the amusingly daffy “MEGAN” sequel, and a documentary portrait about opera singer Andrea Bocelli, “Because I Believe.” 4K/UHD...

Digital Week – September 17

This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new films in theaters and streaming, led by Tim Blake Nelson as a washed-up boxer in “Bang Bang,” the third installment in Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy, “Dreams,” and a South Korean remake of a 2011...

Digital Week – September 10

This week’s roundup includes reviews of the latest “Jurassic World” sequel, on 4K; and several new releases in theaters, from a small, independent winner of a drama (“A Little Prayer”) and two well-done documentaries about political overtones (“Democracy Noir” and “A...

Digital Week – August 27

This week’s roundup includes reviews of new films including one Coen brother’s “Honey Don’t” and Olivier Assayas’ “Suspended Time” (both in theaters), along with rereleases “Diva” (in theaters) and “The Conjuring” and “Route One/USA” (on disc). In-Theater Releases of...