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Cha Cha Real Smooth – Sundance 2022

Writer-director and star of Cha Cha Real Smooth, Cooper Raiff, plays Andrew, a recent college graduate who moves back home and begins working as a bar mitzvah party starter. He’s lost until befriending...
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Blithe Spirit – Review

Hail to thee, Dan Stevens, once again a man with writer’s block, haunted by ghosts at his desk. In 2017, Charles Dickens, and now as Charles Condomine, the no-good cad at the heart of Noël Coward’s...
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Welcome to Marwen – Review

Steve Carell continues his fine run of dramatic turns in this seemingly whimsical yet serious study of trauma. He portrays Mark Hogancamp, an artist badly beaten in a gang assault who creates his own therapy...
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Blockers – Review

As an ensemble piece, Blockers has a lot to juggle - it’s basically two three-handers colliding as the parents and children both fall into their own prom night misadventures, but the film also has to make...