THE FLORIDA PROJECT: A MUST-SEE SLEEPER
The Florida Project is one of this year’s best films, a remarkable slice of life set in and around a motel on the fringes of Orlando, Florida. Here, little kids with no adult supervision find ways to amuse themselves day…
BLADE RUNNER 2049: NOT WORTH THE WAIT
II’ve taken more heat for my negative review of 1982’s Blade Runner than almost anything else I’ve written. I gave the film three shots as director Ridley Scott revised it over the years but it never spoke to me, beyond its…
HAROLD AND LILLIAN ON BLU-RAY
EDITOR’S NOTE: This wonderful film is now available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber and Amazon. Watch the trailer HERE. You don’t have to be a movie buff to fall in love with the story of Harold and Lillian Michelson. Their…
OUR SOULS AT NIGHT
I love watching Robert Redford. He still has the effortless charisma that made him a star more than fifty years ago, and he’s ideally matched with Jane Fonda in Our Souls at Night. It’s their fourth collaboration; they are clearly…
BEFORE KING KONG: A LOST WORLD FOUND
Film buffs and aficionados of stop-motion animation have been frustrated for years because The Lost World, the 1925 feature that laid the groundwork for King Kong, has only existed in severely truncated prints. Even an ambitious restoration in the…
