7500

As an exercise in tension, the hijack thriller 7500 delivers gripping goods in its nerve-fraying tale of a mild-mannered pilot desperate to land a Berlin to Paris flight while under siege by a trio of kamikaze Muslim extremists determined for it to crash and…

Read More

Da 5 Bloods

What has happened to American film directors today? Where are the sociopolitical critiques? The inquiries into government? Observations on the culture wars tearing at our seams? The balls to make a movie actually about the times in which we live? Make way for Spike…

Read More

The King of Staten Island

I had little knowledge of Pete Davidson going into the new Judd Apatow picture The King of Staten Island. I’d never seen his comic stints on SNL and was more familiar with his paparazzi-fueled, pop culture romantic dalliances than anything related to either his…

Read More

Shirley

In a few short years, Elizabeth Moss has cornered the market on emotionally fraught, through-the-ringer screen characters, from The Handmaid’s Tale’s subjugated Hester to Her Smell’s strung-out rocker and The Invisible Man’s tormented object of obsession. In her latest portrait of turmoil, Moss is…

Read More