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‘The World According to Allee Willis’ Review: The Songwriter Who Stretched From ‘September’ to the ‘Friends’ Theme Song Gets a Lively Doc

Showbiz has always made for strange bedfellows. Still, it’s hard to fathom any single personality linking talents as diverse as Pet Shop Boys, Bob Dylan, Fishbone, John Tesh, Diana Ross, Dusty...

‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ Review: Town Terrors Get Tamed in a Fresh Take on the Kid-Lit Classic

Initially a magazine short story, then expanded to novel form in 1972, Barbara Robinson’s “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” has remained a holiday staple ever since. Its enjoyable central conceit of...

‘Cellar Door’ Review: Scott Speedman and Jordana Brewster Find a Portal to Implausibility in Suburban Portland

The “Bluebeard”-like hook of splendors granted on one condition — never, ever enter a household’s specific forbidden zone — raises expectations of a spooky, macabre good time. Those expectations are almost...

‘Space Cowboy’ Review: A Skydiving Cameraman Looks Back on His Rise and Many, Many Falls

If you were to find entire dinette sets, automobiles and living rooms — with people sitting in them — tumbling Earthward from the clouds, you might think “Okay, so End Times...

‘The Last of the Sea Women’ Review: A Deep Dive Into an Underwater Korean Tradition

A vanishing way of life is captured in “The Last of the Sea Women.” Sue Kim’s feature directorial debut trains focus on the haenyeo — female divers associated primarily with Jeju...

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