Hartford Megalopolis: A Mega Mess Major studios spent years telling Francis Ford Coppola “no” when he tried to get Megalopolis made. The movie spent decades in development hell before Coppola spent $120 million of his own money to make it, financed by his winemaking business. Jamil Ragland 16 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Reel Twisted: Forging Community Through Film In 2021, Tulsa added two much-needed film festivals to its CV: the all-online Greenwood Film Festival, which debuted in the midst of the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre... Cassidy McCants 11 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Undoing The Joker Let’s get this out of the way: Joker: Folie à Deux is not a good movie. It meanders for two hours with no real point. It gives Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (played as well as she could by Lady Gaga) nothing to do but fawn over Joker. Jamil Ragland 7 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Burying The Lee Lee is a biopic about Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, one of the best-known photographers of the Second World War. Jamil Ragland 1 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Megalopolis Brings Arthouse To Cinemark The lights dimmed in a movie theater Thursday night for maybe the most prime example of an arthouse film to come along this year, and together the audience watched as Cesar Catilina, played by Adam Driver, edged out of his office window to stand on a metal ledge at the edge of a skyscraper... Brian Slattery 27 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford The Two Should Have Remained as One Transformers One Apple Cinemas Xtreme Hartford Sept. 23, 2024 Transformers One serves as the origin story for perhaps the two most famous Transformers in history: Optimus Prime and Megatron. However, Jamil Ragland 25 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford “Speak No Evil” Crosses Over From Suspenseful To Boring Speak No Evil Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas West Hartford Speak No Evil is a psychological horror movie that follows the Dalton family on a trip to Italy, where they meet Paddy Jamil Ragland 17 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Shapeshifters Cinema: Avant-Garde on the Edge of Town Housed in adjoining Victorians, The Shapeshifter’s trifecta—cinema, brewery, and cafe, occupies a stretch of 5th St…I have to admire the building surviving the one-two punch of urban renewal and imminent domain that razed countless other neighboring structures. Fred Noland 10 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford A Great Movie Theater Move Theater, A Not-So-Great Movie Movie Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Mansfield Drive-in Theater Mansfield Sept. 8, 2024 Have you ever had a great experience and a disappointing one at the same time? That’s how I would describe Jamil Ragland 10 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Teen Suffering Needs More Laughs Dìdi Real Art Ways Hartford Aug. 4, 2024 Dìdi tells the story of Chris Wang (played with earnest enthusiasm by Isaac Wang), known as Wang Wang to his friends, and Jamil Ragland 5 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford 3 = A Love Quadrilateral The Bikeriders Cinestudio Hartford, CT Aug. 3, 2024 “You can’t have him!” Kathy shouts at Johnny, the leader of the Chicago Vandals bike club, after her husband Benny nearly Jamil Ragland 4 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland LOW LIFE SCUM THAT’S WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT ME These rambunctious, cheeky, ketamine-loving miscreants also happen to be smart, angry at the British, and versed in Welsh, a dying language and deeply important part of their heritage. Cue the mayhem, and wear your stomping boots. Stacey Peters 4 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven French Film Series Turns Institute Library Into Le Cinema The Institute Library became le cinema Thursday night as its French film series — “Bonsoir, Mes Ami(e)s!” — began with Beauty and The Beast (also known as La Belle et Karen Ponzio 30 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Twisting In The Wind Twisters Cinestudio Hartford August 27, 2024 This review contains spoilers. I never saw Twister back in 1996, but that made me determined to not miss this cultural moment when the Jamil Ragland 28 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford One Character Short For A Love Story Touch Cinestudio Hartford Aug. 19, 2024 This review contains spoilers for the movie. “What’s going on, Miko? Can you tell me what you’re thinking?” Kristófer, the main character Jamil Ragland 23 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford A Different Kind Of “Weird” — That Merits Our Attention Kinds of Kindness Cinestudio Hartford August 12, 2024 Rarely has a movie left me as speechless as Kinds of Kindness, showing at Cinestudio through Aug. 15, managed to do. It’ Jamil Ragland 14 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven A Gem Called Wanda, Rescued What’s an arthouse film? Not unlike the cult film, it can draw in a certain type of cinephile that searches for an experience unlike the one you get from Karen Ponzio 13 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
LA Mulholland Drive In 4K: “Don’t Drink All the Coke!” MULHOLLAND DRIVE IN 4K Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Los Angeles July 25, 2024 Like the memory of its brunette leading lady, my relationship to David Lynch’s 2001 Los Audrey Serrano 11 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
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