Film Review: From Raleigh, ‘Fever Dreams’
Rob Underhill’s “Fever Dreams” began as a series of episodes for a “Creepshow” type anthology that never got made. Largely written by producer Al Julian (who appears in three of…
Documentary Reminds: He’s Rick James
More than 20 years after his hitmaking heyday, Rick James became a household name to a whole new generation in 2004 when Dave Chappelle mocked his brash personality with the…
Film Review: The Story of the Band Luxury
The indie band Luxury from Georgia gained some mild regional attention in the mid-1990s for mixing the ferocity of punk with the Smiths-like melodicism of its lead singer. What might…
Film Review: Taking ‘Steps’ to Forgiveness
In the opening scenes of Eddie Harris’ screenplay for “Steps,” a man (Rob Morgan) is randomly shot in a robbery outside a Jersey City bodega, is injured enough to lose…
Film Review: ‘Marathon’ Mockumentary
Christopher Guest’s mock documentaries on dog shows and local theater groups are classics in the genre and are likely upper mind to the makers of “Marathon,” a new comedy that…
Film Review: A Sensual ‘Touch’ in China
Aleksandra Szczepanowska’s feature debut “Touch” is quite an astounding achievement. It is as once a sleek, seductive peek into a Western woman’s efforts to fit into contemporary Chinese society as…
Film Review: Victoria Justice in ‘Trust’
Though it has gorgeous shots of New York City and glimpses of Paris, with pretty people doing things in the worlds of fine art and broadcast journalism, there’s something of…
Film: Comedy Meets Horror in ‘Too Late’
For a business aligned with mirth, standup comedy uses an awful lot of terms associated with violence: “You killed out there.” “I bombed.” “I murdered ‘em.” So it might make…
Film: A Marriage’s ‘Before/During/After’
Finnerty Steeves is an actress who has put in good work on dozens of stages over the past couple of decades; on Broadway in “Brighton Beach Memoirs”; on TV on…
Film Review: Artists’ Angst in ‘Paint’
Considering that it’s the dominant visual medium, it’s crazy there are relatively so few good theatrical movies about art and artists, and fewer still about the contemporary art world. Michael…