Master Z: Ip Man Legacy - Old-school Hong Kong gangland crime with jolting fight sequences
ReviewJim SlotekIp Man, Bruce Lee, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy, Yuen Woo-ping, Max Zhang, Liu Yan, Dave Bautista, Michelle Yeoh, Kevin Cheng, Chrissie Chau
Hellboy: Boy, this is one hellish reboot!
ReviewJim SlotekHellboy, David Harbour, Neil Marshall, Milla Jovovich, Daniel Dae Kim, Ian McShane, Ron Perlman, Guillermo del Toro, Mike Mignola, Sasha Lane
Little: Something a 10-year-old might come up with after seeing Big - and it was!
ReviewJim SlotekLittle, Regina Hall, Issa Rae, Luke James, Big, Tracee Ellis Ross, Marsai Martin, Blackish, Kenya Barris, Tina Gordon, Tracy Oliver, Girls Trip, Mikey Day, Eva Carlton, Adult in kids body plot
Amazing Grace: Long “Lost” Doc Locates Aretha Franklin at the Height of her Powers
ReviewAretha Franklin, Reverend James Cleveland, Sidney Pollack, C.L. Franklin, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones, Documentary, Alan Elliott, Music documentaries, Alexander Hamilton, Exile on Main Street
Far. The Story of a Journey Around the World: An incredible, feel-good hitchhiking achievement
ReviewJim SlotekFar. The Story of a Journey Around the World, Patrick Allgaier, Gwendolin Weisser, Iran, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Irkutsk, Mexico, German documentary, Central America
The Best of Enemies: TV movie-ish tale of how a Klan leader's heart grew three sizes one day
ReviewJim SlotekThe Best of Enemies, Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Taraji P. Henson, Durham, North Carolina, School segregation, Ku Klux Klan, Wes Bentley, Babou Ceesay, Anne Heche, Robin Bissell
Mary Magdalene: Female-Led Bible Story Beats the Odds, Brings the Goods
Mia and the White Lion: Real-Time Coming of Age Tale Has Big Cats, Meerkats… and Deep Messages
ReviewMia and the White Lion, Daniah De Villiers, Melanie Laurent, Langley Kirkwood, Ryan Mac Lennan, Coming-of-age stories, Family films, Lions, Animals, Gilles de Maistre
Stockholm: Ethan Hawke Comic Thriller Is a (Ahem) Slog Day Afternoon
ReviewChristopher Heyerdahl, Shanti Roney, Thorbjørn Harr, Bea Santos, Mark Elov, Robert Budreau, Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, fact-based drama, Canadian, Born to Be Blue, Dog Day Afternoon, Derivitive
The Brink: The Banality of Steve Bannon on Full Display in New Documentary
ReviewThe Brink, Steve Bannon, Alison Klayman, documentary, Donld Trump, U.S. politics, Duck Dynasty, New York TImes, BBC, The Guardian
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Terry Gilliam’s Latest a Tall Tale That Stumbles… And Face Plants
ReviewThe Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Terry Gilliam, Fantasy, Years in the Making, Cannes, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, Jordi Mollà, Sancho Panza, Spain, Films set in Spain
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Review, Preview, PodcastThe Invisibles, Carmine Street Guitars, Pet Sematary, Shazam, Edge of the Knife, Sunset, Acquainted, Weekly Roundup, Movie podcasts, Zachary Levi, Ron Mann
Shazam!: A crowd-pleaser that both mocks superhero cliches and succumbs to them
Sunset: One woman's confoundingly ambiguous journey through a fraying, pre-WWI Central Europe
ReviewJim SlotekSunset, László Nemes, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Son of Saul, Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov, Mátyás Erdély, Julia Jakubowska, Marcin Czarnik, Pre-WWI European politics
The Invisibles: True-Life Story Propelled By Doc Aspect but Hobbled by Re-enactments
ReviewRuby O. Fee, Alice Dwyer, Laila Marie Witt, Claus Räfle, The Invisibles, Aaron Altaras, Nazi, World War II, Period films, docudramas
Pet Sematary: Sometimes un-resurrected is better
ReviewJim SlotekPet Sematary, Stephen King, Jason Clarke, Resurrection horror, Amy Seimetz, Jeté Laurence, Hugo Lavoie, Chance the Cat, John Lithgow, Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer, Derry, Maine, Fred Gwynne
Carmine Street Guitars: Plucky re-constructionists and string lovers tell a tale that resonates
ReviewJim SlotekCarmine Street Guitars, Ron Mann, Comic Book Confidential, Rick Kelly, Guitar reconstruction, Cindy Hulej, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Charlie Sexton, Lenny Kaye, Eszter Balint, Nels Cline, Jeff Tweedy, Wilco, Dallas Good, Travis Good, The Sadies, Jim Jarmusch, Coffee and Cigarettes
Acquainted: In this jaundiced romance, it's not you, and it's not me - it's them!
ReviewJim SlotekRomances, Millennials, Acquainted, Natty Zavitz, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Giacomo Gianniotti, Laysia De Oliveira, Rachel Skarsten, Long distance relationships, Breakups, Films shot in Toronto, Films that acknowledge they were shot in Toronto
Edge of the Knife: Beguiling Film Charts Area Where the Natural and Supernatural Mix
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Review, Preview, Interview, PodcastLost & Found, Firecrackers, Falls Around Her, Dumbo, The Beach Bum, Through Black Spruce, Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes, Giant Little Ones, Hotel Mumbai, The Highwaymen, John Lee Hancock, Darlene Naponse, Anthony Maras, Danny DeVito