Reviews

Photos by Luis Escobar, Reflections Photography Studio   When it comes to Shakespeare and his much-performed comedy Much Ado About Nothing, “I think he means to delight us—pure and simple,”…

There’s something fishy going on at The Great American Melodrama, although what’s happening seems relegated to a place far, far away—somewhere in the chilly northern wilds of Wisconsin—not in the…

The theatre was packed, no one could sit still, and everyone clapped at the end. Becoming Led Zeppelin was a long time coming: finally, a documentary about the origins of…

It was KISS who famously sang “God gave rock and roll to you,” but I’m pretty sure they were mistaken. Now, after attending a tour-de-force presentation of Million Dollar Quartet…

From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Brazil was governed by a far-right military dictatorship. Rulers enforced strict censorship, reduced freedom of speech, and imprisoned, tortured, and killed many…

The Brutalist—a three-part, three-and-a-half-hour film depicting the life of a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant architect—covers a lot of ground. It starts with his entry into the United States (fresh from the Holocaust),…

The Cambria Film Festival, running February 5-9, has given SLO Review the opportunity to preview many of the more than 80 full-length and short films that make up its 2025…

The Cambria Film Festival, running February 5-9, has given SLO Review the opportunity to preview many of the more than 80 full-length and short films that make up its 2025…

The Cambria Film Festival, running February 5-9, has given SLO Review the opportunity to preview many of the more than 80 full-length and short films that make up its 2025…

The Cambria Film Festival, running February 5-9, has given SLO Review the opportunity to preview many of the more than 80 full-length and short films that make up its 2025…