ARTSIES
MAKING WAVES – TBD
Few realize that sound is 50% of the cinematic experience. Building on the pioneering sight-and-sound discoveries of iconic filmmakers, this documentary features the first generation of recognized Sound Designers who designed great movies with sound before a frame was shot. Read More
Director: Midge Costin
Starring: Erik Aadahl, Ioan Allen, Richard L. Anderson
PAIN & GLORY – 3 1/2 Stars
Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Read More
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia
FARTSIES
MIDWAY – Not Screened by Me
MIDWAY centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. Read More
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Luke Evans
PLAYING WITH FIRE – 1 Star
When straight-laced fire superintendent Jake Carson (John Cena) and his elite team of expert firefighters (Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo and Tyler Mane) come to the rescue of three siblings (Brianna Hildebrand, Christian Convery and Finley Rose Slater) in the path of an encroaching wildfire, they quickly realize that no amount of training could prepare them for their most challenging job yet — babysitters. Read More
Director: Andy Fickman
Starring: Judy Greer, Keegan-Michael Key, John Cena
DOCTOR SLEEP – 2 1/2 Stars
“Doctor Sleep” is the continuation of Danny Torrance’s story 40 years after the terrifying events of Stephen King’s The Shining. Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the “shine.” Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers, The True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality. Read More
Director: Mike Flanagan
Starring: Rebecca Ferguson, Ewan McGregor, Jacob Tremblay
LAST CHRISTMAS – 3 Stars
Kate (Emilia Clarke) harumphs around London, a bundle of bad decisions accompanied by the jangle of bells on her shoes, another irritating consequence from her job as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop. Tom (Henry Golding) seems too good to be true when he walks into her life and starts to see through so many of Kate’s barriers. Read More
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Emma Thompson
OPENING NEXT WEEK
Charlie’s Angels
Cyrano, My Love
Fantastic Fungi
Ford v. Ferrari
The Good Liar
The Report
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
Waves
