Weaponized Cruise
Tom Cruise is the quintessential all-American male. He is the rock-jawed hero with his dark hair and roguish smile, forever …
Category Archives: Briefs
On Screen: Menashe
The rare — and good — new Yiddish-language movie comes to Mariemont Theatre. Menashe Lustig in “Menashe”PHOTO: FEDERICA VALABREGA / …
Street People
The review for Damon Davis and Sabaah Folayan’s documentary Whose Streets?, on RogerEbert.com, includes a singularly significant line that speaks …
‘Wind River’
Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water) takes the helm on Wind River, a spiritual sequel of sorts …
Ongoing Spotlight – August 7, 2017
THE DARK TOWER [PG-13] D Franchise building isn’t easy, nor is there a single straightforward means of approaching the process. …
Maudie’s Sweet Charm
Is there another actor working today with more sweet and innocent charm than Sally Hawkins? She burst on the scene …
Wild ‘Girls Trip’
On the heels of the tonally disjointed girls gone wild movie Rough Night, here comes director Malcolm D. Lee’s offering, …
Fresh and Funny ‘Spider-Man’ Reboot
How funny is it? Quite, thanks to the eager and earnest presence of Tom Holland as a high school-age Peter …
Sofia Coppola’s Beguiling Film
Back in 1971, Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Dirty Harry) steered Clint Eastwood into The Beguiled, …
Ongoing Spotlight – June 26, 2017
TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT [PG-13] D Guy Ritchie’s recent “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” practiced a wholesale flouting of …
