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Dec 23, 2024
Film Review: ‘A Complete Unknown’ reveals Bob’s back pages
From its casting to its settings to its all-important musical choices, James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown is an electrifying, irresistibly engaging portrait of one of America’s unique originals, Bob Dylan.
Covering the years from Dylan’s 1961 arrival in...
Dec 17, 2024
‘Gladiator’ all over: Try on these sword-and-sandals epics
Regarding Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, the sequel to his Gladiator (2000): What would the world do without gladiator movies? The ones set in the ancient Roman Empire, of course, preferably in the vast and menacing Colosseum. Where...
Nov 5, 2024
Film Review: Home alone in ‘Heretic’
Hugh Grant isn’t used to being mixed up in a screenplay quite as messy and perplexing as Heretic’s is. Although, he’s undoubtedly visited the outskirts of the M&P neighborhood in his 42-year stint as one of the...
Oct 31, 2024
Retrospective showcases revolutionary Soviet filmmaker
Sergei Parajanov is a filmmaking superstar most of today’s moviegoers have never heard of. And yet the late director (1924-1990) is hailed by fellow cineastes, critics and historians as one of the greatest film artists who ever...
Oct 29, 2024
Arab Film Festival depicts a community moving forward
The sound of aircraft intrudes upon the lives of Gazan refugees in many of the 22 short films that comprise From Ground Zero, the centerpiece film at this year’s Arab Film Festival. Sometimes the men, women and...
Oct 18, 2024
‘My Old Ass’ is more than just the latest Aubrey Plaza movie
It had to happen eventually: Aubrey Plaza’s latest vehicle is a comparably lightweight comic feel-gooder. It’s called My Old Ass, and despite its cheeky title it changes everything we thought we knew about one of the most...
Oct 8, 2024
Albany FilmFest returns to the East Bay
The 14th Annual Albany FilmFest (AFF) returns to the East Bay, if not to Albany, beginning Oct. 10. The Albany Twin movie theater closed suddenly in June 2023, while AFF’s staff was in the middle of planning...