Pete's Place

Along with such titles as The Hobbit, A Wizard of Earthsea, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone , and The Book of Three , Madeleine L’E...

I’m a sucker for movies that question the sanity of the main character and thereby cause the viewer to wonder about the reliability of th...

As counter-intuitive as it might sound, chaos only works in a movie when it is carefully controlled and focused. Tarantino is one of seve...

This review contains spoilers. I try to be discreet about them but they are there. No one can dance through genres as blithely as Fran...

At the heart of Mudbound , director Dee Rees’ adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s novel, is the relationship that forms (and the consequences ...

An apology and a denial. First, I apologize missing the 101 st anniversary of this historic, albeit somewhat trivial, event by two days,...

Tomb Raider may be the most faithful adaptation of a video game to-date. Unfortunately, faithfulness to the source material doesn’t alwa...

This character study compensates for certain narrative hiccups and a bland sense of time and place by offering an effective performance b...

Love, Simon is, at it’s core, a crowd-pleaser about an "average" high school guy who finds love in the most unlikely of places...

The concept of a child creating an imaginary world as a retreat from reality isn’t new to either movies or literature. In fact, one of th...

During the past year, several of the studios releasing superhero movies have upped their game, moving into new territory without tossing ...

Science fiction means different things to different people. For some, it’s the quasi-fantasy/space opera of Star Wars . For others, it’s ...

It’s fair to ask what new things Eli Roth and Bruce Willis bring to Death Wish that the original, made in 1974 with Charles Bronson, did...

Sally Potter’s quirky The Party owes a lot to a generation’s worth of French "gathering" films in which a bunch of characters ...

12 Strong represents a recent war as depicted on screen in an old-fashioned way. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, war movies followed an ...