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In Jeffrey A. Brown ’s “The Unheard,” one young woman’s past trauma collides with a present-day terror in a sleepy Northeastern town. After Chloe ( Lachlan Watson ) enrolls in a clinical trial at the Northeast Eye and Ear Institute (which looks to be based on Mass Eye and Ear) to repair her hearing that was damaged during a childhood illness, she heads out to her dad’s residence on the Cape to recover and help him sell the house where they last saw her mother ( Michele Hicks ) before she disappeared. You’ll soon discover this town has an awful history of missing women. Lost in-between waves of nostalgia and videotape-induced flashbacks, Chloe begins to hear voices and sounds no one else can.  “The Unheard” has its shining moments, but they are not enough to cover for some duller missteps. Although the premise is strong, its execution is less-than-convincing. Watson plays the leading role in such a whisper that her underwhelming performance doesn’t carry the screams or suspense th...

If I could look at some sort of historical record of how many hours I’ve played Tetris—all the way back to its iteration on the Nintendo GameBoy through its many imitators—I would probably faint at the lost productivity. There’s something so addictive about Tetris. It gets under your skin; you just want to play one more round, again and again. Telling the story of how this time-killer became an international phenomenon could have made for an interesting film, but “Tetris,” which premiered yesterday at SXSW, tries to turn this tale of patents and legal rights into something closer to “ The Social Network ” or even an ‘80s spy movie, and, well, the cinematic blocks just don’t fall into place. Taron Egerton stars as Henk Rogers , the founder of a company called Bullet-Proof Software, and a man who basically stumbled into the legacy of Tetris at a gaming convention in his new home country of Japan. He instantly realizes the potential of a game that had yet to make its way around the...

The problem with “Spinning Gold” is not that it's a bad movie so much as a boring one about a true story. For anyone with even a vague knowledge of its subject—the meteoric rise and jaw-dropping fall of Casablanca Records and founder Neil Bogart during the 1970s—the idea that a tale dealing with such levels of creative, financial, and personal excess here could be dull seems almost impossible. But "Spinning Gold" somehow manages to pull off that dubious task, audaciously crossing “ The Greatest Showman ” and “ The Wolf of Wall Street ” and ending up with a dramatically inert and historically dubious mess. It's " Gotti " with a slightly better soundtrack.  The key issue, in this case, can be traced to the credits. The film was written and directed by Timothy Scott Bogart , son of Neil Bogart, and he is also one of the four Bogarts listed among the 29 credited producers, to say nothing of the additional ones who turn up in various positions in the end...

The man locked up in a jail cell and sentenced to the electric chair is no longer the same man, quite literally. He used to be Fred Madison ( Bill Pullman ), a paranoid saxophonist accused of killing his wife, Renee ( Patricia Arquette ), but to the bewilderment of the prison guards, he has somehow vanished overnight. Seated in his place is Pete ( Balthazar Getty ), a significantly younger auto mechanic who hasn’t got a clue how he got there. What can the authorities do apart from release the lad, allowing him to return to his job at a garage, his adoring girlfriend, Sheila ( Natasha Gregson Wagner ), and his formidable client Mr. Eddy ( Robert Loggia ), whose mistress Alice seems naggingly familiar (after all, she is also played by Arquette). What is the connection between these two wildly different men—Fred and Pete—and why does an ominous Mystery Man ( Robert Blake ) seem to take malicious delight in tormenting them both? These are the questions that left me hopelessly puzzled dur...

10 NEW TO HBO MAX " All the Beauty and the Bloodshed " " Creed " " Dog Day Afternoon " " The Departed " " Eyes Wide Shut " " The Fugitive " " GoodFellas " " Michael Clayton " " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " "Point Break" 10 NEW TO NETFLIX " Carol " " The Dark Knight " " Dragged Across Concrete " " Easy A " " Galaxy Quest " " The Hunger Games " " National Lampoon's Animal House " " Pitch Black " " Sleepless in Seattle " " World War Z " 8 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD " All Quiet on the Western Front " It's been interesting to watch streaming giant Netflix release some of their most acclaimed films on physical media, but most of them have been through a deal with Criterion that led releases for " Roma ," " The Power of the Dog ," a...

Apple TV+ is, possibly unintentionally, developing a house style. The streaming service’s comedy series largely traffic in a near-universal fashion: Instagram-ready interiors, gleaming lighting, writing/characters that are desperate for audience approval. Their dramas—with the exception of the near-flawless “ Severance ”—are no different. “ Shining Girls ,” “ Suspicion ,” and “ Defending Jacob ” would have been better off as mid-budget movies because there simply isn’t enough meat on their bones to justify 8-12 episodes. “The Big Door Prize,” Apple TV’s latest release, attempts to marry drama and comedy and fails at both, all while featuring Pinterest-perfect production design and writing that smarts of the Hallmark Channel. Adapted from the M.O. Walsh novel of the same name by a team that includes David West Read (“Schitt’s Creek”), “The Big Door Prize” features an ensemble cast led by Chris O’Dowd as Dusty, a high school European history teacher (and expert whistler) whom we meet o...

Raine Allen-Miller ’s directorial debut “Rye Lane” made waves at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and arrives on Hulu this week. The movie follows Dom ( David Jonsson ), Yas ( Vivian Oparah ), and their fateful meeting in the gender-neutral restroom at an art exhibit. What begins as a thorny meet-cute turns into the longest unofficial first date ever, unfolding into a survey of the difficulty of moving on and the joy of quick connection. “Rye Lane” is a playful rom-com for the modern age. We meet Dom as he sobs longingly in a toilet stall. He's mourning his six-year relationship with Gia ( Karene Peter ), who left Dom for his best friend Eric ( Benjamin Sarpong-Broni ), an up-in-the-clouds kind of guy. This separation leaves Dom feeling depressed and abandoned, as he's forced to move back in with his parents, where he plays video games and munches on his mother’s nonstop delivery of boiled eggs and bread.  Yas is similarly freshly on the outs with her ex-boyfri...

Glamorous, decadent fun from start to finish, " The Thomas Crown Affair " glides along the surface of everything. It regularly hints that their might be more depth to the characters and story than meets the eye, then pulls back and practically winks at the audience for expecting such things when they know full well they paid to see beautiful people get away with all sorts of things. A remake of a same-titled Norman Jewison films from 1968, starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway and a lot of then-fashionable split-screen imagery, it's the kind of movie that Hollywood studios used to make regularly, and that fell mostly out of favor for while, although it made a brief comeback in the 1990s with efforts like this one, Steven Soderbergh's " Out of Sight ," and others.  Pierce Brosnan stars as Crown, a wealthy, mysterious art thief who steals Monet’s masterpiece “San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk” from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rene Russo is Catherine Ban...

Roger Ebert ’s Film Festival is pleased to announce the full lineup of films and accompanying filmmakers who will participate in the post-screening discussions at the 23rd annual event, which runs from Wednesday, April 19th, through Saturday, April 22nd, at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois. "As this year marks the 10th anniversary of Roger Ebert’s death, the program reflects his guiding principle of empathy," said Chaz Ebert , who co-founded and hosts  Ebertfest.  "In Roger’s memory, we will gather together in what Roger has called the  temple of cinema  to reaffirm our connections to each other.”  The program for Ebertfest 2023 curated by Festival Director Dr. Nathaniel Kohn and Chaz Ebert is titled “Empathy at the Movies,” and includes 11 films, two short films, 20 guests, and three musical performances:  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19   NINE DAYS  (2020) This ultra-original fantasy drama considers the meaning of life a...