I have an affinity for Katy Perry. I do admit she’s like the Walmart version of a wannabe pop princess, who showcases a ton of glitz, a dash of glamor, and a lot of cookie-cutter, overcaffeinated theatricality, but I’m not remotely above humming along happily...
Arts & Entertainment: Film
I have so many questions regarding Practical Magic 2. Was the 1998 original so beloved that it required a legacy sequel? Why does it so casually undo the uplifting ending of its predecessor, meaning why are magical sisters Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian...
Some films are easy to categorize: keep or skip, thumbs up or down. The Weight resists that simplicity. This Depression-era survival drama offers plenty to admire, notably Ethan Hawke’s career-best performance and the outstanding cinematography. Yet for every...
In the great Australian grindhouse tradition of combining unrelentingly bleak exploitation with subversive, politically incorrect black comedy into one lean, mean horror yarn, Penny Lane Is Dead is one of the more discombobulating discoveries I’ve come across...
In the dog days of a sweltering 1986 Australian summer, Penny Lane (Bailey Spalding) and her best friends Toni (Tahlee Fereday) and Amy (Alexandra Jensen) have her secluded house all to themselves. They’re planning on celebrating her getting into college, and...
The path to queerness isn’t always straight. That’s the message at the core of Seattle-based filmmaker Kaylie Connors’ upcoming project, Summer of Eden, a Queer coming-of-age feature film cowritten by Connors, made on location in Seattle and Bellingham and...
Throw on your darkest outfit, pull on your black boots, and apply your makeup, because after 25 years, one of the most beloved cult classics in Queer and goth cinema is roaring back to the big screen. Gypsy 83: The Director’s Cut has arrived — bigger, bolder,...
The best popcorn film of the summer is writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s wildly entertaining Spielbergian throwback, The End of Oak Street. Like some surreal, creative melding of a 1960s episode of The Outer Limits, Jurassic Park, Poltergeist, and...
Leave it to the studio that made The Purge series to allow director Will Gluck (Easy A, Anyone But You) and writer Travis Braun to craft a romantic comedy about the rise of a fascist political regime in the United States that bans all forms of sexual...
Every so often, a film arrives with a story so human and so real that it lingers long after it’s over. Elsinore — landing in select theaters on November 20 — looks to be exactly that kind of film, a true story most people have never heard. Elsinore follows the...