Michael Frank

This recap of The New Pope Season 1, Episode 6 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these...

This recap of The New Pope Season 1, Episode 5 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these...

This recap of The New Pope Season 1, Episode 4 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these...

This recap of The New Pope Season 1, Episode 3 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these...

Both Acasa, My Home and malni–towards the ocean, towards the shore were seen at Sundance 2020. Check out all of our coverage from the festival....

Sometimes, you can feel that the movie you’re watching is special. The moving images on the screen displayed in front of you resonate far beyond...

There are certain places in the world that contain an element of past experiences, holy grounds that have been visited for thousands of years. When...

Insidious became the first horror movie to instill a palpable amount of fear in my life. For many years, horror had been a genre I...

During the first 15 minutes of Adam Rehmeier’s Dinner in America, you think you understand what kind of movie you’re watching. Profane language, racial and homophobic...

This recap of The New Pope Season 1, Episode 2 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these...

Outside of Pixar and other award-winning animation canons, it becomes harder to find a truly great, live-action film rated PG in the 21st century. Most...

This recap of The New Pope Season 1, Episode 1, contains spoilers. When The Young Pope ended a couple of years ago, audiences, both in St. Peter’s...

When the Golden Globes aired recently in early January, the majority of the categories felt up-in-the-air. Pundits struggled to predict the likes of Best Director,...

Sometimes you can’t stop it. You feel helpless, at the mercy of the string of pictures being played before you. The film builds upon itself,...

The name of Harriet Tubman exists in history books. We see her mentioned in museums, parks, historical sites, and paintings. The U.S. twenty-dollar bill even...

Writer-director Rodrigo Bellott’s new film Tu Me Manques is an exploration of Latin American ideas about homosexuality. Bellott pens a script that doesn’t allow you...

The last decade has provided us with some incredible black-and-white films, and you can be sure to add director Martha Stephens’ To the Stars to...

Laddy Gaga, Queen Lactacia, Suzan Bee Anthony, and Bracken Hanke. Those are the four stage names for the kids at the center of Megan Wennberg’s...

My first film at NewFest, New York City’s LGBTQ premiere film festival for the last 31 years, was one that strikes at you with a...

World War II movies, or even movies depicting Adolf Hitler in a comedic fashion, are far from original. Even during and immediately after Hitler’s reign,...