Film Reviews

Cinema is a lot of fun but it doesn't feel like it will save the world. Abstract: The Art of Design might, because design dictates our relationship with the world around us.

Younger readers may not remember, but there used to be a time when high-school kids would beat the shit out of each other after class (or sometimes at lunch) to settle disputes — and entertain their peers.

People used to make fun of Keanu Reeves. For ages he was dismissed by armchair cinephiles as a one-trick pony whose acting range existed entirely within the space between "dude" and "bro.

The pre-Oscar cinematic doldrums continue, so neither of the new releases this week at the Village 8 had press screenings, which is generally a bad sign.

My "Best of 2016" review of La La Land elicited a few official complaints to the editor of this fine paper and now the film is apparently back in town this week. But rather than poke the hornets' nest again, let's just outline the facts : 1.

I didn't get any listings of what's opening locally this week so we're flying blind here. But that is OK because January, a.k.a.

Awards season is upon us and usually that, combined with tight, post-Christmas spending habits, means Hollywood pukes out crap they paid to make but don't deem good enough to release in the more profitable times of the year.

You need manure to grow good beans and while 2016 sucked in many ways it did produce an above-average crop of films.

By many metrics, 2016 was not a good year — incredible people died, ice caps melted, politics stunk, terrorists were assholes, Harambe the gorilla...

As humans we have a long tradition of sitting in the glow of a fire telling ghost stories, especially during the coldest, darkest days of late December. Apparently, Christmas ghost stories were big in England during the Victorian era.