Review: ‘Reagan’ movie is historical hooey — and a slog
There’s political idolatry, and then there’s the canonization in movie‘s clothing that is Sean McNamara’s faith-tinged bio-epic “Reagan,” which follows its subject, played by Dennis…
FIFA delay again review of Palestinian call to suspend Israel | Football News
The FIFA Council has delayed making a decision on a Palestinian bid to suspend Israel from international football until October.World football’s governing body FIFA has…
‘Close Your Eyes’ review: A Spanish master returns, potently
The first feature that Victor Erice directed, 1973’s “The Spirit of the Beehive,” begins in the 1940s, when a traveling cinema arrives in a small…
Babe Ruth ‘called shot’ Yankees jersey sells for record $24 million
Babe Ruth’s New York Yankees jersey from his supposed “called shot” home run in the 1932 World Series has sold for $24 million, cementing its…
‘The Crow’ review: Remake has too much muck, not enough myth
The dirty secret of urban hellscape movies drenched in rain and blood is that when it comes down to it, they don’t so much trigger…
‘The Killer’ review: John Woo remakes his own action classic
After years in the wilderness, director John Woo has been back at target practice, and if his aim isn’t what it once was, it’s worth…
Review: Geffen’s Tarell Alvin McCraney era starts strong
Playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney (“Moonlight”) was appointed artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse last year, but the McCraney era really began on…
A rabbi and an older student find reciprocity in the playful 'Between the Temples'
Supplying the unfussy warmth of a mismatched Hal Ashby rom-com, director Nathan Silver's breakthrough soars on performances by Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane. Source link
‘Rob Peace’ review: Flattens out complexity of a true story
Statistics about the social mobility of Black lives don’t always do justice to what it looks like up close for one person. That’s where movies…
‘Sugarcane’ review: Film unearths abuse of Indigenous kids
A dilapidated barn where trapped kids once scrawled messages like “73 days more.” An elderly survivor of a priest’s abuse pinpointing the day during her…
‘Skincare’ review: A neurotic Hollywood facialist is stalked
Director Austin Peters makes his narrative feature debut with “Skincare,” a slice of nasty L.A. noir set within the beauty industry, starring Elizabeth Banks as…
UK to conduct review on tackling ‘extremist ideologies’, including misogyny | Women’s Rights News
Misogyny, ‘Islamism’ and far-right ‘extremism’ among trends to be analysed, Home Office says.UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a review of the United Kingdom’s…
‘Chimp Crazy’ review: A disturbing argument against primate ownership
One of the first television shows I can remember seeing was “The Hathaways,” an early ‘60s sitcom, starring Peggy Cass and Jack Weston, about a…
Review of killer’s care finds ‘a series of errors’
Family handoutIan Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were stabbed to death by Valdo CalocaneA review has found "a series of errors, omissions and misjudgements"…
‘Dance First’ review: Gabriel Byrne portrays Samuel Beckett
It would be hard to imagine a genre more antithetical to the modernist sensibility of Samuel Beckett than the biopic. The Irish writer who relocated…
‘Daughters’ review: Prisoners reunite with their children
When a parent goes to jail, everyone in the family does time. And in Black communities most severely affected by the impersonal whims of the…
‘Cuckoo’ review: An enjoyably stylish European nightmare
Tilman Singer’s “Cuckoo” is a horror film that‘s unlike anything you’ve ever seen, even though it pays overt homage to its predecessors in the genre.…
It Ends With US review: A Hallmark version of domestic violence ill-equipped to deal with the weight of the subject
IT ENDS WITH US(15) 130mins ★★☆☆☆THERE were moments in this adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel that I wanted someone to turn into a Hammer Horror psycho.…
‘Yo Gabba GabbaLand!’ review: The colorful, dancing crew is back
In August 2007, an endless white space appeared on Nickelodeon’s Nick Jr., into which stepped a man wearing an orange track suit and a fuzzy…
‘Mr. Throwback’ review: Stephen Curry latest title is actor
Stephen Curry, the basketball player, is all over television this week — or, to be specific, all over Peacock. There are the Olympic Games, of…