Film
There is no denying that “Kidnapped”‘s warning about political authority abusing religion for its own accumulative ends resonates powerfully at this moment.
Read MoreFilm/Album Review: “Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums” — A Superb Documentary About a Brilliant Artist
Part of what makes pianist Omar Sosa such a fascinating (and successful) musician is how his complex music constantly dances back and forth, between charming the mind and charging up the body.
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The “Mad Max” series is one of the few franchises in history that’s only gotten better with age, likely because George Miller’s refined and tinkered with his distinctive vision via each new development in filmmaking technology.
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“Wildcat” is a biopic that sticks with you for days, bedeviled by questions and revelations.
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Breezy as “Hit Man” is, there’s a sting to this romance’s tail.
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What have you done to prevent the end of the world? A quartet of documentaries in this year’s Global World Film Festival offer different answers to this nagging question.
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film is consciously frozen paced to the point of parody.
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“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” — Think “I, Claudius” with monkeys, by way of “Lord of the Rings” and “The Searchers.”
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This powerful documentary is a paean to what was once thought to be the immortal impact of cinema and television, a thoughtful commentary on life’s richness — and its inevitable impermanence.
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This is a lucid but dreamlike fable about the often fraught confrontation between humanity and nature.
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