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Before You Know It: Indie Dramedy Aims for Kooky/Clever Sweet Spot, Skids Left

September 19, 2019

By Liam Lacey

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In Review Tags Before You Know It, Judith Light, Alec Baldwin, Mandy Patinkin, Hanna Pearl Utt, Jen Tullock, Sundance, Indie, Oona Yaffe
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Motherless Brooklyn: Edward Norton's film-noir writing, directing and starring turn is a worthy 'Chinatown East'

September 9, 2019

By Jim Slotek

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In Review Tags Motherless Brooklyn, Film noir, Chinatown, Edward Norton, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Moses, Alec Baldwin, James Rouse, Tourette Syndrome, Bruce Willis, Thom Yorke, Wynton Marsalis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
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Framing John DeLorean: An oddly successful meta doc about why they should make a movie about John DeLorean

June 4, 2019

By Jim Slotek

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In Review Tags Framing John DeLorean, John DeLorean, General Motors, Back to the Future, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, War on Drugs, Sheena M. Joyce, Don Argott, Alec Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Josh Charles, Jason Jones, GTO, FBI sting, Cocaine
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Inside Out: LGBTQ Fest Yields Marquee Premieres, Stars, and Some Very Good Films

May 22, 2019

By Jim Slotek, Liam Lacey and Kim Hughes

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In Review, Preview Tags Inside Out, film festival, Rocketman, Taron Egerton, Gay Film, Lesbian Film, Drag Queens, Tales of the City, Netflix, Laura Linney, Paul Gross, Ellen Page, Mindy Kaling, Emma Thompson, Alec Baldwin, Judith Light, Mandy Patinkin, Michael Madsen, Matt Bomer, TIFF 2018, Mark Patton, Robert Englund
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The Public: Important Social Issue Fails to Sway in Middling Drama

April 23, 2019

By Kim Hughes

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In Review Tags The Public, Drama, TIFF 2018, Emilio Estevez, Jenna Malone, Jacob Vargas, Alec Baldwin, Michael Kenneth Williams, Gabrielle Union, Christian Slater, Taylor Schilling
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Hot Docs 2019: Things get real again, with Ai Weiwei, Gordon Lightfoot and 232 more

March 19, 2019

By Liam Lacey

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In Preview Tags Hot Docs 2019, Gordon Lightfoot, Chelsea Manning, Willie O'Ree, Ai Weiwei, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Stieg Larsson, Michael Hutchence, Human Flow, Killing Patient Zero, Laurie Lynd, Gaetan Dugas, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Lynching, Ron Artest, Metta World Peace, Framing John Delorean, Alec Baldwin, Tommaso Buscetta
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