Category: Magazine / Musical
White Vengeance: The Movie With Epic Battle Scenes Based On China History
Impressive costume drama about two warring leaders loses the plot halfway. White Vengeance (Han So Truyen Ky) follows the same course that many other recent…
“Juliet, Naked” is a charming, shambolic indie-rock romance
“Juliet, Naked” is a gently winning romantic comedy, all keyed to a delightful note of indie-rock obsession. It’s exactly the sort of movie you want…
VOX LUX: DIRECTOR’S STYLIZED TAKE ON BROKEN SOCIETY FULL OF EMPTY CALORIES
Without executive producers Natalie Portman and Jude Law attached as stars, and hit-maker Sia penning the set-piece songs (she also exec-produces). It’s hard to imagine…
Cold War (Zimna wojna) movie review: chilly romance
Pawel Pawlikowski’s followup to his 2015 Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film Ida is another melancholy contemplation of life in Poland in the postwar period. This…
Netflix’s Dumplin’: May Actually Make You Tired of Dolly Parton
Only two of the three women at the heart of Dumplin’. A new Netflix comedy about a trio of unconventional beauty-pageant contestants, have something to…
Wild Rose: director Tom Harper on his Glasgow country music saga
A star is born in Jessie Buckley, as she plays a Scottish ex-con with a passion for country music. War & Peace director Tom Harper…
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY – Freddie Mercury biopic bites the dust
Rami Malek’s impersonation adds a kind of magic to this Queen-produced rock slog with a troubling moralistic subtext There’s a scene in “Bohemian Rhapsody” I…