‘Jurassic World Dominion’ review: An unintentional video game movie, but not in a good way

“Jurassic World Dominion takes place four years after Isla Nubar has been destroyed. Dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to…

Album Review: Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra – “I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This”

Jeff Goldblum’s latest outing with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This, is a warm and bubbly addition to the slate of new autumn releases. The efficient album contains a host of standards pulled from the songbooks of…

Movie Review: ‘Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom’ leaves little to the imagination

Jurassic Park broke new ground by shifting the limits of possibility in the world of cinema, but it also established a formula that has remained virtually untouched since 1993, a formula embraced wholeheartedly by moviegoers who made Jurassic World the…

Hotel Artemis Movie Review: Drew Pearce’s directorial debut is overstuffed but not totally awful

The day filmmaker Drew Pearce lifted the veil off his directorial debut — the coolly designed and extra-violent yet somehow still ungainly Hotel Artemis — he admitted he purposely tried to create “one person’s favorite film, rather than lots of…

Always at the Carlyle Movie Review: A Documentary You’ll Want to Stay and Live In

There’s a certain facet of people who love to swoon over the elegant (and with it, the expensive). I’m one of those people who has justified staying at an expensive hotel because of the “ambiance,” the knowledge that it’s where…

The Film Canon: The Fly (1986)

David Cronenberg has long established himself to be a maverick in the world of film since his humble beginnings in the 1970s. From a career perspective, his filmography output took a different direction during the early to mid 80s. Cronenberg…

Everybody Loves Jeff Goldblum

One of the most interesting aspects of the marketing for this weekend’s big blockbuster movie, Independence Day: Resurgence has to be who the star of this sequel seems to have become. Without Will Smith’s return (Roland Emmerich choose to kill…