I joked to a colleague before watching Olivier Assayas’s new comedy of manners, Non-Fiction (aka Doubles vies, or Double Lives), that I could already foresee what my review would be: “it’s good and … Read More
Review: Oscar-winning comedy “Get Out Your Handkerchiefs” returns
It’s been forty years since the French comedy Get Out Your Handkerchiefs won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Cohen Film Collection is reviving the film in … Read More
Teaser Trailer: Star Wars: Episode IX
Hold on to your butts. I ain’t saying nuthin’ else on the matter. Garon CockrellGaron Cockrell is the Founder and Editor of Pop Culture Beast and host of The Pop … Read More
Movie Review: “Diane” is a perfect showcase for Mary Kay Place
The Big Chill star is Diane, a woman hiding from herself. Diane is the kind of quiet gem that doesn’t get made (or seen) very much in the current movie landscape. … Read More
Movie Review: “Birds of Passage” has fresh visuals, familiar story
Review: Birds of Passage The new Colombian film Birds of Passage (Pájaros de verano) seeks to offer a fresh spin on the era-spanning crime epic, by showing us an aspect … Read More
Secret Cinema Announces Casino Royale UPDATE
Casino Royale Update January 18, 2019: additional tickets have been released and will go on sale on Friday 25th January at 12pm (GMT). Secret Cinema is back – presenting another … Read More
Secret Cinema Announces Casino Royale
Casino Royale Secret Cinema is back – presenting another night that is part movies, part interactive-in-a “Tony and Tina’s Wedding”-way theatre, with some voluntary cosplay thrown in that can might … Read More
Black Cat: Bohemia, Southbank’s Udderbelly *****
On the banks of the Thames, in the unchartered realm of the spiegel tent, lurk a troupe of performance aficionados, ready to send shudders through the Udderbelly. Led by cabaret … Read More
Movie Review: Brothers Separated as Babies are “Three Identical Strangers”
The manic joy and deep sadness of Three Identical Strangers reunited as teenagers. Director Tim Wardle’s new documentary Three Identical Strangers reminded me slightly of Eugene Jarecki’s standout doc from 2003, Capturing the … Read More
Movie Review: Mr. Rogers “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? the year’s first great tearjerker. The new documentary about TV’s Mister Rogers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is a love story, but not in the traditional sense. It’s … Read More
Movie review: “Summer 1993” is a miraculous debut
Don’t watch the trailer for Carla Simón’s Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993). Simón’s autobiographical first feature is the kind of low-key character study that is impossible to market and, in excerpts, it can … Read More
Movie review: James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander can’t float “Submergence”
An old tried-and-true rule that carries over from the days of VHS rental stores is that if you come across a movie that you have never heard of, but the … Read More
Movie review: Joaquin Phoenix in “You Were Never Really Here”
Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here is a film about violence — and it’s quite brutal in its way — but very little of that violence is shown. Instead, Ramsay … Read More
Revisit your favorite IPs in “Ready Player One”? How ‘Bout No?
The Ernest Cline book Ready Player One is a story by a pop culture fanboy for pop culture fanboys. It’s full of signifiers and not-very-deep references that make young Gen … Read More