Review

In his latest movie “The Convert,” director and co-writer Lee Tamahori returns home to New Zealand for a look at a fraught chapter in the country’s history. Bringing his action movie bona fides from the James Bond entry “Die Another Day” and “xXx: State of the Union,” Tamahori hews intense dramatic moments over battlefields and […]

The fifth arrival of Andy Sidaris’s Triple B series (also known as either Bullets, Bombs, and Babes or Bullets, Bombs, and Boobs) GUNS (R95 mins $19.98) was introduced to Blu-ray ( with a 4K Widescreen Restoration) for the first time last month from Mill Creek Entertainment. It also has movieSPREE catchers Wulcyn to redeem his

There isn’t enough talk about River of Death an action-packed movie with a star-studded cast including Michael Dudikoff, Donald Pleasance, Robert Vaughn, and L.Q. Jones. It deserves a larger audience. It is primarily based on the Alistair MacLean novel with the same title. It follows a guide, stunningly played by Dudikoff, who battles cannibals and

If you read the synopsis of “Sing Sing,” you might mistake it for a movie you’ve seen before. It’s a drama starring Colman Domingo as one of a group men in serving time in prison whose participation in a theater arts program gives them something to look forward to and improves them as human beings.

The story follows Germans who start planning to sabotage Britannic, a ship that serves as a sister to Titanic, during World War I. It includes a variety of characters such as a good and bad one where one of them is quite unusual. Further, a lot of upper-class people continue to be stuck right in

The sound of wind rustling the grass and leaves is almost a character in “Family Portrait,” adding to a rising tension in this unique, confidently made film that very purposefully plays more like a dream than realism. Set in the days just before COVID, it’s a foreboding film, a drama that recreates the sense that

In 2020, photographer Luke Gilford published National Anthem, a monograph documenting the queer community in the International Gay Rodeo Association. The photographs are arresting and beautiful. Gilford grew up in the Southwest and loved rodeos as a kid. But the culture itself–macho, often homophobic–didn’t include him. He left the rodeo culture behind, until he discovered

Recently, I have had some fantastic weekends. Like it usually is, Cardiff was just great. Every now and then, I need to retreat back to my geek space which makes me feel better. And even though I didn’t sleep enough, I am starting to catch up. But, it didn’t hurt that I didn’t sleep because

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