Laemmle’s Playhouse 7

Initially I had no interest in Top Gun: Maverick. I saw the first Top Gun in the theater back in 1986 and found it corny machismo and rah-rah pro-military junk....

In an alternate universe, one without a pandemic, writer/director/editor Chloé Zhao would have had two 2020 releases under her belt: Nomadland and Eternals,...

The Pasadena International Film Festival (PIFF) is back with more than 100 films spanning eight days, at Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 in Pasadena. Rated in the top...

A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

This dramatization of Judy Garland’s five-week residency at London’s Talk of the Town nightclub, just a few months before her death in 1969, rises...

I haven’t been excited about a new movie in years – that is, until a year or two ago, when I first heard about the making of Once Upon a Time in...

I was one of the few people left unmoved by Ari Aster’s debut horror feature Hereditary. I found it more overwrought than truly chilling. Still, I felt...

Emma Thompson plays Katherine Newbury, apparently the only female late night talk show host in a fictional universe concocted by writer/producer/costar Mindy...

A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

In my review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, I shared my apprehension about reviewing Netflix-produced features designed to premiere in your living room, a...

A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

Granik’s first feature since 2010’s Winter’s Bone – excluding a 2014 documentary called Stray Dog – once again tells a tale of poor white...

Exactly the sort of film you’d expect to see from a political rapper named Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You introduces us to the unique vision of a new...