Woody Allen’s Cafe Society lets us love his characters but not his whole story

Woody Allen did a lot right in his direction of Cafe Society, the Hollywood legend’s period piece about a New York City kid coming of age in the 1930s. Bobby Dorfman moves to Tinseltown and takes up under the tutelage of his bigwig agent uncle Phil Stern, hoping to learn about the life and maybe…

American Ultra finally allows the haze to clear

At the start of American Ultra, a beat-up and bloody dude by the name of Mike is asked how he got to such a state by an authoritative figure. Wanting to be supportive, he starts to answer. Instead we get quick panels of flashbacks. Sitting in a late Friday afternoon showing in the Regal Cinemas…