It wasn’t my intention, but at AFI Fest: with films examining Black love, injustice, and outer space—I discovered three documentaries about grief, each occurring in the space…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: AFI Fest [Reviews]: The Cave, Alan Pakula: Going for Truth, and Desert One”

Rating: 3/4 Months after the events of The Shining (1980), bowl-cut bicycle pedaling Danny Torrance (Roger Dale Floyd) remains haunted by the phantasmagorical residents of the Overlook…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘Doctor Sleep:’ Is a Fanciful Dream…Until it Awakes”

Rating: 1.5/4 Less remembered than the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, Midway: America’s 1942 retaliation against the Japanese Empire, literally turned the tide of World War II.…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘Midway:’ Should’ve Been Left Grounded”

Rating: 3/4 There’s a book waiting to be written about movies no one wanted, and the first chapter will certainly feature Tim Miller’s latest installment in the…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘Terminator: Dark Fate:’ Sometimes Gallops like a Tremendous Machine”

Rating: 2/4 With a wide range of quality, 2019 has been the year of the long gestating passion project: from Ang Lee’s Gemini Man to Martin Scorsese’s…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: ‘Motherless Brooklyn:’ Rarely Bridges with the Audience”

Other than love, no human emotion permeates as potently as loss—partly because grief is love’s complication. At the Chicago International Film Festival, three foreign language pictures: Atlantics,…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: CIFF Reviews: Atlantics, Vitalina Varela, and Invisible Life”

Rating: 4/4 What’s that I hear? It’s “as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.” The sound of deflated haters never…… Read more “New from Robert Daniels on 812 Film Reviews: CIFF Review: ‘Knives Out’ Makes the Whodunit Great Again”