Gotham Episode 1.18 Recap: Everyone Has a Cobblepot

Last updated on: March 5, 2015 at 8:23 pm By Scott W. Kingsolver

How can Gotham make us really care about its characters? Read more

UnDivided (Martin, 2013)

Last updated on: March 5, 2015 at 11:42 am By Kenneth R. Morefield

"The best way to convince people you don't have an agenda is to not have an agenda." Read more

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Madden, 2015)

Last updated on: March 4, 2015 at 2:16 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

It's clear that when beloved matriarch figure Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) describes hotel entrepreneur Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (★★★) is attempting to write its own review. Sonny, she observes in a moment of droll understatement, gets a lot of things wrong...but never when it matters most. When he gets things right, it is a sight to behold. Read more

Farewell to Hollywood (Corra and Nicholson, 2015)

Last updated on: February 28, 2015 at 6:37 pm By Andrew Spitznas

This documentary about the relationship between a filmmaker and his dying young protégée is both troubling and inspiring, but never boring. Read more

The Widowmaker (Forbes, 2015)

Last updated on: February 26, 2015 at 9:29 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

We are told at the beginning of The Widowmaker, Patrick Forbes's slow but efficient documentary, that more Americans (600,000) die from heart attacks each year than from all forms of cancer combined. Read more

Coming Soon: Bite Size, Libera in America

Last updated on: February 26, 2015 at 11:29 am By Kenneth R. Morefield

Young people tend to be one of the more stereotyped groups in fiction films, so I tend to be attentive to documentaries about them Read more

Gotham Episode 1.17 Recap: The Red Hood

Last updated on: February 24, 2015 at 8:22 pm By Scott W. Kingsolver

I am not sure how I feel with what seems to be an odd rush to get the Joker in the show somehow. Read more

Out of the Dark (Quílez, 2014)

Last updated on: February 19, 2015 at 3:17 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

Either Out of the Dark had the misfortune to be released too soon in the wake of The Babadook or--more likely--horror films in general are a bit too formulaic for my taste. Read more

McFarland, USA (Caro, 2015)

Last updated on: February 22, 2015 at 3:51 pm By Andrew Spitznas

“McFarland, USA” may not deviate much from the underdog sports movie playbook. But it’s so winningly done that I hardly cared. Read more

In Defense of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — A Response to Roger Ebert

Last updated on: February 21, 2016 at 8:36 am By Guest Contributor

Who says hope can't be grounded in truth? Read more