New to Me 2024: A melodramatic year of heightened emotions on screen
by Carmen Paddock, Staff Writer
Featured From Here to Eternity, Suddenly Last Summer, Conversation Piece, Black Narcissus, Senso, Margaret, In Harm’s Way
Party Like It's 1999: Updating Shakespeare with TITUS and 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
by Carmen Paddock, Staff Writer
The 1990s was perhaps the greatest decade for populist, almost blockbuster Shakespeare on screen.
MUCH ADO ABOUT DYING is a loving, understated look at death in the family
by Carmen Paddock, Staff Writer
A beautiful look at a time of life most prefer to ignore, Much Ado About Dying is a celebration of life at all its stages and the history, both intimate and societal, that bind us together.
FLOW is essential children’s viewing for the age of climate change
by Carmen Paddock, Staff Writer
Flow embraces a simplicity and vividness that prove engrossing, keeping the focus on the cat and his experience in a big, wide, sometimes dangerous world at the fore.
QUEEN OF THE RING brings glitzy, gritty Americana to wrestling history
by Carmen Paddock, staff writer
Queen of the Ring gives Burke full credit as a force who changed women’s wrestling forever and is well worth seeking out for wrestling fans and newcomers alike.
MAD ABOUT THE BOY: THE NOËL COWARD STORY is pure hagiography
by Carmen Paddock, Staff Writer
Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story is a pleasant hour and a half celebrating one of the 20th century’s most witty and versatile writers, but expect nothing deeper.
A MISTAKE is a paint-by-numbers approach to a complicated tragedy
by Carmen Paddock, Staff Writer
A Mistake takes a complicated scenario and washes it of artistic finesse, making the ensuing emotional impact negligible.
HOARD is an audacious, uncompromising debut feature
by Carmen Paddock, Staff Writer
Carmoon possesses a genuinely unforced comfort with the weird which comes through candidly in her uncompromising debut feature Hoard.