The titular private eyes are a pair of English schoolboys, Edwin Paine (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), who become ghosts after dying tragically at the same boarding school 70 years apart. Edwin, a closeted gay boy essentially hate-crimed into the underworld, died in 1916; Charles, a Thatcher-era British punk, shifted the mortal coil … Read more
“Amazing Grace” (2018) Aretha Franklin fans thought they’d never see it: the documentary Sydney Pollack filmed in January 1972 as the Queen of Soul recorded a live album in Los Angeles. The resulting record, “Amazing Grace,” remains the best-selling gospel album of all time, but the faithful craved the images that had been captured at … Read more
Baker plays Travis Hurley, a detective assigned to look into a twenty-year-old case in the desolate South Australian not-quite-town of Limbo. This outpost in the outback is strewn with private opal mines (a milieu also explored in the excellent 2017 “Strange Colours,” a film sponsored by the Biennale College) but it’s not exactly a boom … Read more
Berger’s story, adapted from the graphic novel by Sara Varon, uses the immediate cuteness of a wholesome, lonely dog looking for a new friend to slowly break down its themes. Its first act is funny and endearing, in which Dog and Robot bond in a series of events often accompanied by the boogie of “September.” Most of all, … Read more
The Purge creator James DeMonaco has opened up about the status of the planned sixth big-screen entry in the action/horror franchise. During an interview with The Playlist, DeMonaco reaffirmed that he had finished the script for The Purge 6, and that the film would see the return of Frank Grillo’s Leo Barnes. However, he also … Read more