'Paydirt': Film Review

“#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump” is a frightening documentary that can leave you scared to death about the prospect of Donald Trump remaining in the Oval Office a day longer than is absolutely necessary. It’s a cautionary tale that can offer some degree of insight into the mind of our commander in chief.

The second film by Chinese art-world star Ai Weiwei to debut in 2020, Coronationlooks at the first chapter of the COVID-19 story: the Wuhan lockdown. Directed from afar by the now Europe-based artist, who had volunteers and employees send him hundreds of hours of footage, it's a very different work from 2017's epic-scaled, tightly focused refugee-crisis doc Human Flow.

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. – Writer-director-actor Tom O’Brien’s feature debut, Fairhaven, is a small-scale but warmly satisfying drama about a trio of male friends from a sleepy Southeastern Massachusetts fishing village, reunited in their thirties for a funeral.

Have you ever wanted to see Colin Farrell and John Malkovich in a brutal mano a mano? Or Jessica Chastain beat up a French killer in a Boston park after dark, or get into a catfight with fierce nightclub-cum-gambling-den owner Joan Chen? Ava, directed by Tate Taylor (The Help, Ma), gives you all that and more. And yet despite those obvious highlights, it’s hard to recommend Ava as a whole.

Few scenarios fill parents with as much dread as the prospect of a missing child. Whether a temporary mix-up at the mall or an experience far more emotionally traumatic, it’s a possibility that can never be completely ignored.

An up-all-night adventure aimed at any young teens who still live in a pre-Tik-Tok era, Trish Sie's The Sleepover is the kind of vanilla, disposable product one imagines might've played on the Disney Channel around the turn of the century.

A kid with high hopes for his life struggles to cope with schizophrenia in Words on Bathroom Walls, Thor Freudenthal's adaptation of a YA novel by Julia Walton. Attempting to help viewers understand an experience most of us can barely imagine — some still confuse it with multiple-personality disorder — the pic self-consciously adapts tropes from more lighthearted teen genres while always keeping one eye on the darkest places this disease can go.

Tenetis surely the most eagerly anticipated film to be released theatrically since the coronavirus pandemic began. That’s only partly because, in some places, it will be the only film to be released theatrically since the virus arrived.

before they get to the time travel.Nolan, who wrote as well as directed “Tenet,” keeps the “inverted material” as a vague McGuffin for almost two hours, concentrating instead on the Bondish battle of wits between the Protagonist and the Russian oligarch.

The legendary Western outlaws known as the Dalton Gang have long been a subject of popular culture. But despite their criminal misdeeds, they deserve better treatment than the new "horror/Western" directed by Aaron B.

Did you know that teenagers have intense emotions? If this comes as news, you may be in the target demographic for this YA drama, with Lili Reinhart as a high-school senior who has suffered a traumatic loss and Austin Abrams as the love-struck guy who helps her come back from it. For anyone over 20, Chemical Hearts will land as a better-than-average version of an obvious story.

plus in Disney+, “The One and Only Ivan” arrives on Aug.

unhinged pretty much says it all.

Far fairer than Artemis Fowl, the poorly-received, previous live-action/CGI hybrid to be rerouted from theaters to Disney+, The One and Only Ivan is a notably muted, soulful portrait of a silverback gorilla who re-evaluates his seemingly contented life as a mall circus performer.

Following his 2012 directorial debut, martial arts homage The Man With the Iron Fists, and 2017’s romantic musical drama Love Beats Rhymes, filmmaker, composer and producer RZA changes up genres once again for his third feature, a convoluted New Orleans-set heist pic.

Also Read: How Larry Kramer Pulled Off the First Film With Frontal Male Nudity - Back in 1969The film is certainly entertaining and even educational, with filmmakers and actors like Peter Bogdanovich, Malcolm McDowell, Amy Heckerling and Sean Young offering revealing (pardon the pun) looks at their adventures on the front lines.

Also Read: 'Spree' Star Joe Keery on His 'Highly Misguided' Character's Pursuit of Viral Fame (Video)The movie is kind of fun if low-budget horror appeals to you. And the way the film is shot — jumping from one small screen to another and piling different social-media windows in the frame so you can read comments as you watch the action — can be a sometimes dizzying kick.

Also Read: Is 'Greyhound' Based on a True Story?The film, which is being released in some theaters (and virtual theaters) on the Aug. 14 anniversary, will also air on the Discovery Channel on Labor Day weekend, which is closer to the Sep.

When Netflix began promoting its latest entry in the summer-that-never-was blockbuster stakes, Project Power, it was hard to suppress an eye-roll of weary puzzlement at the fanboys eager to slam it as lame and derivative. Sure, it has conceptual similarities to the Bradley Cooper vehicle Limitless, to DC Comics property Hourman, to Image Comics'War Heroes.

A Russia-set creature feature whose intensely serious tone belies some awfully silly stuff in its plot, Egor Abramenko's Sputnik locks an Alien-inspired parasite up in the steppes of Kazakhstan and waits to see if humans can figure out how to handle it. Suffering a bit in the charisma department, the film moves sluggishly for the hour or so that it takes to get on its feet, finally giving its humans something interesting to do.