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REVIEW – “Girls Trip” Plays Huge on the Laughs, Way More on the Friendship by Joe Hammerschmidt   A lesson can be learned after walking out of a nearly full audience screening last week for Malcolm D.

  “Wish Upon” Exchanges Wicked Horror Cleverness for a Slight Muddled Hesitation by Joe Hammerschmidt It can be said that it takes plenty of guts, or preferably blood and/or a promising horror premise to counter against the

By Joe Hammerschmidt There are moments throughout a year that tend to stand out better than most. As a surveyor of film, the Seattle International Film Festival has made for a sizable fraction of those moments over

By Joe Hammerschmidt Is it wrong to keep holding out false hope for Hollywood to rise up and create a comedy that’s not quite by the numbers, that’s unafraid to throw a curveball and try something different?

By Joe Hammerschmidt For those still in need of a heartfelt humanist comedy this summer season, one needn’t look further than Judd Apatow and his large list of contacts, one which only grows after each new project.

By Joe Hammerschmidt This almost never happens, but as the credits rolled for the latest Edgar Wright masterpiece “Baby Driver”, I found myself needing to catch my breath. In the moment, I realized just how exhilarating a

By Joe Hammerschmidt A rather lesser-known partnership in Hollywood has made waves, that between a young director just starting to find his way, and a screen vet with years of experience and an instantly recognizable voice to

By Joe Hammerschmidt With any film, there comes a basic description. Most of the time, I tend to forego the warnings said descriptions will often warrant, and only once in a blue moon will I have said

By Joe Hammerschmidt In the present age of studio comedies, especially when the summer season often strives to deliver its share of surpreme turkeys (“Baywatch” falling somewhere in the middle), we’ll often wind up with a film