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There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there’s “Lumina,” a film so breathtaking in its overall incompetence that one starts to wonder if it’s not intentionally so in the hope of being the next “The Room” or “Birdemic.” How else to explain some of the laughable shot choices, inconsistent characters, nonsensical […]

At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger,” Martin Scorsese recounts how he first encountered the works of the legendary filmmaking duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger as a child under perhaps the worst conditions imaginable on his family’s black-and-white television in substandard and edited prints that made hash

After a series of successful martial arts films with The Cannon Film Group such as Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, and Ninja III: The Domination, Sho Kosugi, the face of the ‘ninja craze’ in the 80s, teamed up with Crown International Pictures to produce the campy cult classic 9 Deaths of the Ninja.

Produced by The New York Times‘s video division, and depending heavily on its own reporting, “Sorry/Not Sorry” is a primer on the rise, fall and reinvention of Louis C.K. A respected standup comic who remade himself as a low-budget arthouse confessional filmmaker, he became the writer, director, producer and lead actor of the semi-autobiographical FX

Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t been that long since we’ve had a feature film on the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, commonly known to public as Sisi. That film was Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage” (2022), starring a stiff-lipped and often (aptly) unsmiling Vicky Krieps as the much-tormented 19th-Century royal. A

The first thing Bobby Lacer, director of the movie Fighting the Fire, said was that he wishes for his film to be profitable but it is clear that his primary motivation is not to purely make money. Nonetheless, that goal by itself is a commendable one as he claims its intention is to save humanity.

Fall is here and this month for us at the DTVC means the Hall of Fame inductions. This timing feels right since I neglected them last year, so they pushed into early 2021. Nonetheless, it was only a while ago I was saying that I had to do this and now I am proud to

“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over decades, languages, continents, and cultures, with themes of memory, aging, loss, and love. But its sensibility is as exquisitely tender as the flutter of a butterfly wing. Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) is an elderly widower and restaurant owner in Iceland who visits his doctor

“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political satire to weighty, remorseful drama and back again. Tonally messy and overlong, director Greg Berlanti’s film ultimately squanders the considerable charms of its A-list stars, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, who are individually appealing but have zero chemistry with each other.

We are still working hard to discover a movie even crazier than the Lord of the Wu-Tang, and so far I haven’t been able to do it. Yet, Sister Street Fighter is an honorable mention. If I had looked at the English-translated titles before watching it, I would have figured this out before. Those are