Dennis Harvey

‘King Cohen’ review: Behind the scenes with a B-movie master

December 13, 2018 at 2:12 a.m.

One of the loopier careers in and on the fringes of mainstream Hollywood is paid loving tribute in Steve Mitchell's documentary "King Cohen." There's nothing particularly inspired about Mitchell's treatment...

‘Breath’ review: Simon Baker’s surfing film joins ranks of genre’s best

December 13, 2018 at 4:09 a.m.

Having directed several episodes of his own long-running TV vehicle "The Mentalist," Aussie actor Simon Baker makes a confident transition behind the camera to feature filmmaking with "Breath," the tale...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘Lowlife’ review: Tarantino-like characters on a crash course

December 13, 2018 at 11:57 a.m.

"Lowlife" is not the movie you'd expect from a comedy collective making its first feature: While mordantly humorous, this tale of several lives fatefully intertwining in the dank underbelly of...

‘Feral’ review: Lost campers, a mysterious hermit and second-rate zombies

December 14, 2018 at 3:27 p.m.

A zombie by any other name would smell as sweet as "Feral," which is to say, pretty gamy — not to mention pretty familiar, as genre fare goes. Mark H....

‘Beirut’ review: Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike go rogue in hostage tale

December 14, 2018 at 5:08 p.m.

A quarter-century-old script dusted off after the success of "Argo" brightened the box-office outlook for negotiation-based espionage tales, "Beirut" emerges a cracking intrigue closer in spirit to something like "The...

‘Journey’s End’ review: Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany play British officers awaiting death in WWI

December 14, 2018 at 11:02 p.m.

Few stage staples from 90 years ago would easily translate to the screen today, yet R.C. Sherriff's once near-ubiquitous "Journey's End" proves potent as ever in this sturdy new adaptation...

‘American Folk’ review: On the road, with strong statement on 9/11

December 15, 2018 at 7:47 a.m.

In plot terms a "Once"-over less lightly, "American Folk" is a modest enterprise that revolves around two musicians who've got more on their minds than mutual attraction, yet the film...

‘Wait for Your Laugh’ review: A fond tribute to funny lady Rose Marie

December 15, 2018 at 6:02 a.m.

As lively and likable as the actress herself, Jason Wise's documentary "Wait for Your Laugh" pays fond tribute to Rose Marie, a tireless trooper whom generations have known mostly as...

‘The Devil’s Candy’ review: Satan worship plus heavy metal not as sweet as it sounds

June 30, 2019 at 4:52 a.m.

Sean Byrne's Aussie alternative-prom-from-hell "The Loved Ones" was one of the better horror debuts in recent years, a neat mixture of the outre, droll and hair-raising. By comparison, the U.S.-made...

‘The Ottoman Lieutenant’ review: Creaky melodrama set in Turkey at onset of World War I

June 29, 2019 at 8:25 p.m.

Joseph Ruben's "The Ottoman Lieutenant" offers a theoretically noble if B-grade and somewhat propagandistic attempt to shed light on a murky historical chapter — while falling into a similar puddle...

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