Potent Memoir Confronts Child Rape: Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale”
Veteran filmmaker Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale” addresses child rape in as straightforward and clear-eyed a manner as any film ever made on the painful…
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The Ballad of Lee Israel: Heller’s Excellent “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
by Greg Carlson | Dec 12, 2018
“The Diary of a Teenage Girl” director Marielle Heller beautifully translates another personal autobiography to excellent results. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” is based…
Read NowScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood: A Legendary Hustler Shares His Stories
by Greg Carlson | Dec 5, 2018
Based on the subject’s candid memoir, “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” pulls back the curtain on the sexual escapades of Scotty Bowers,…
Read NowArt House Heist: McQueen’s Stylish Widows
by Greg Carlson | Nov 28, 2018
Were it not for Steve McQueen’s professed admiration of the 1980s television series upon which his new movie is based, “Widows” might seem an…
Read NowThe Old Man & the Gun: Lowery Directs a Redford Victory Lap
by Greg Carlson | Nov 28, 2018
For my money, David Lowery has been as much fun to watch as any filmmaker of his generation. He’s a veteran editor, and it…
Read NowA Holiday Special in a Grindflicks Far, Far Away
by John Showalter | Nov 14, 2018
A long time ago (1977) in a galaxy far, far away (20th Century Fox) there was a film released called “Star Wars Episode IV:…
Read NowDanse Macabre: Guadagnino Reimagines “Suspiria”
by Greg Carlson | Nov 14, 2018
WARNING: The following review reveals plot information. Read only if you have seen “Suspiria” Luca Guadagnino’s ambitious reimagining of Dario Argento’s “Suspiria,” the first…
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by James Osborne | Nov 7, 2018
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Read NowHill Looks Back at the “Mid90s”
by Greg Carlson | Nov 7, 2018
Jonah Hill’s feature directorial debut, which he also wrote, is a textbook bildungsroman of the hetero-masculine variety, a finely tuned throwback to the “Mid90s”…
Read NowFilmworker: In Kubrick’s Shadow
by Greg Carlson | Oct 31, 2018
Unknown to the general public but fascinating to followers of Stanley Kubrick, the name Leon Vitali takes center stage in Tony Zierra’s “Filmworker.” Vitali,…
Read NowTurkish flix mega mix
by Greg Carlson | Oct 24, 2018
On Thursday, November 15 at the Sanctuary Events Center, Grindflicks will present “Turkish Movie Showcase: A Mega Mix of Turkish Flix.” Tickets for the…
Read NowFirst Man: Chazelle and Gosling Take a Moonwalk
by Greg Carlson | Oct 17, 2018
Damien Chazelle’s fourth feature follows the trajectory common to the careers of many ambitious and talented filmmakers honored with Academy Awards: the dissipation of…
Read NowA Star Is Born
by Greg Carlson | Oct 10, 2018
WARNING: The following review reveals plot information. Read only if you have seen “A Star Is Born” Bradley Cooper directs himself and Lady Gaga…
Read NowComedy Icon Gets Well-Deserved Bio with ‘Love, Gilda’
by Greg Carlson | Oct 3, 2018
“Love, Gilda,” Lisa D’Apolito’s biography of founding “Saturday Night Live” member Gilda Radner, treats comedy fans to an earnest assessment of the brilliant performer’s…
Read NowDeadly Clicks in Levinson’s “Assassination Nation”
by Greg Carlson | Sep 26, 2018
Slipping and sliding through its blood-soaked climax, “Assassination Nation” attempts to reconcile the lurid and exploitative embrace of its milieu with an in-your-face polemic…
Read NowSevigny Takes Up the Axe in “Lizzie”
by Greg Carlson | Sep 19, 2018
Director Craig William Macneill speculates on the infamous legend surrounding Massachusetts murder suspect Lizzie Borden in “Lizzie,” a long-germinating labor of love for star…
Read NowDinklage Is the Last Man Standing in ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’
by Greg Carlson | Sep 12, 2018
Filmmaker Reed Morano’s “I Think We’re Alone Now” doesn’t match the levels of heat surrounding the tireless veteran cinematographer’s other recent successes on “The…
Read NowLGBT Film Festival Celebrates 10 Years
by HPR Contributor | Sep 12, 2018
by Ryan [email protected] The lights are down and the energy is up at the Fargo Theatre this week as the Fargo-Moorhead LGBT Film Festival…
Read NowBlindspotting: Oakland in Black and White
by Greg Carlson | Sep 5, 2018
With first-time feature director Carlos Lopez Estrada at the helm, friends/screenwriters/producers/stars Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal collaborate on “Blindspotting,” one of the year’s most…
Read NowArt and Life in “Madeline’s Madeline”
by Greg Carlson | Aug 29, 2018
The borders of the real and imagined assume a prominent place in Josephine Decker’s “Madeline’s Madeline,” the new feature from the talented filmmaker of…
Read NowLee’s Latest Must-See: BlacKkKlansman
by Greg Carlson | Aug 22, 2018
Spike Lee’s stated desire to comment on current events through the colorful prism of a 1970s-set period piece reaps tremendous rewards in Cannes Grand…
Read NowEighth Grade: Burnham Makes Strong Feature Debut with Fisher
by Greg Carlson | Aug 15, 2018
Elsie Fisher’s Kayla Day is the lonely but indefatigable middle-school protagonist of first-time feature filmmaker Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” a winning addition to the…
Read NowSeparated-at-Birth Brothers Meet in ‘Three Identical Strangers’
by Greg Carlson | Aug 8, 2018
Tim Wardle’s documentary “Three Identical Strangers” shares the seemingly impossible tale of brothers Eddy Galland, David Kellman, and Bobby Shafran, separated-at-birth identical triplets who…
Read NowSusco Clicks on Our Fears in ‘Unfriended: Dark Web’
by Greg Carlson | Aug 1, 2018
Making his feature directorial debut, “The Grudge” writer Stephen Susco scares up a handful of unnerving images and grim thoughts in “Unfriended: Dark Web,”…
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