Cinetopia is Off to a Brilliant Start at the Michigan Theater
May 13, 2019The Ann Arbor Film Festival launches its eighth season with “Before You Know It”, a comedic drama about a family theater company and (finally) coming of age
Class struggle is at the heart of Jordan Peele’s new horror film
April 30, 2019In his dark mirror, there is nothing more frightening than “Us” Jordan Peele’s long-awaited film “Us” is finally here, and while it may engender polarized audience responses, it solidifies Peele as a masterful writer-director with his own distinctive voice. “Us” begins in 1986 with a young Adelaide watching TV. We know it’s 1986 because an
Film Review: “The Favorite”
April 3, 2019Cynical, absurd, and fiercely entertaining “The Favorite” is one of the best films of 2018. Dark, twisted, nihilistic, and hilarious, “The Favourite” follows Queen Anne, Lady Sarah Churchill, and a new arrival in court, Abigail Masham, through court intrigue so perilous that it makes “Dangerous Liaisons” seem Disneyesque. “The Favourite” takes place in England during
Green Book is Worth the Trip
February 8, 2019An elite black pianist tours the segregated south with a white roughneck chauffeur. Green Book combines two crowd-pleasing formulas—the road movie and the true story—with two stellar lead actors, Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. Mortensen plays Tony Lip, a white, working class second-generation Italian-American from the Bronx who works as a nightclub bouncer. Ali plays
Green Book is Worth the Trip
January 14, 2019The film’s title is derived from a guide of establishments that blacks traveling in the Deep South were allowed to patronize.
The Grinch Reinvented
December 31, 2018The Grinch is a 2018 update of the holiday classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas.