.Kelly Vance

So intense has been the advertising run-up to the Warner/Mattel candy-mobile Barbie that some may wonder what makes it worth the hype.  What’s so special...

In Colm Bairéad’s remarkable new drama The Quiet Girl, it’s 1981 in rural Ireland, where families speak Irish Gaelic at home and cows are...

Christian Bale has a face made for the gothic.  At this stage of his career—36 years after his youthful appearance in Steven Spielberg’s war drama,...

The film production company now called 20th Century Studios, previously known as 21st Century Fox, and before that as 20th Century Fox, had a...

Let’s be frank. Do we really need another retelling of the Marilyn Monroe story? Really, is there anyone even remotely interested in learning the details...

The two-year-long pandemic drought of new movies has blossomed into a bumper crop of indies in all flavors, shapes and sizes.  Genre is king once...

The summer’s most anticipated “delayed by COVID” movie has arrived. Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is big, glossy, rollicking, intermittently entertaining and easy to figure out.  Elvis...

A few short notes on Kino Lorber’s re-release of the angry, exhilarating 1979 documentary The Wobblies, the story of the Industrial Workers of the...