Keith Uhlich's posts

There was once a blithe, carefree time when Tom Hanks could tap out a tune on a life-size keyboard in FAO Schwarz.…

Some guys just can’t carry a tuna. Witness Jean-René (Dany Boon), a provincial Frenchman who accidentally drops a…

It was the summer of 2008, and the second movie of a beloved series neared release. Advertising was prevalent and…

Bughuul is back! But what can he do for an encore? The horror-movie faithful already know what drives the…

On the evidence of their worldwide smash The Intouchables, as well as their latest comedy-drama Samba,…

David Thorpe doesn’t like the way he sounds. Fresh out of a long-term relationship and quickly approaching midlife,…

They’re a match made in heaven. But unfortunately, photographer David Gallo (Micah Hauptman) and actress Brenda…

Safe to say that everyone with an internet connection is aware of the story of Miles Scott, the 5-year-old leukemia…

English writer Vera Brittain’s 1933 memoir, Testament Of Youth, is widely beloved, an account of the bestselling…

The latest from director James “V For Vendetta” McTeigue is bunk of the very lowest level. (And, despite the title,…

Acrophobics need not apply to Marah Strauch’s documentary about the late Carl Boenish, the father of the modern BASE…

There’s been a mini-spate of low-budget vehicles for older actresses recently—shoestring-budget films that feel…

Lately, it seems not a day goes by without some report of police corruption or brutality. The image of a cop who,…

William Blakely thinks he’s a clone. Or at least he will soon enough. Initially, William (co-writer Conal Byrne)…

Clothes make the man, so the saying goes. But does the reverse hold true? Read a synopsis of Frédéric Tcheng’s…

The fingerprints of executive producer Spike Lee are all over cowriter-director Julius Onah’s middling feature-film…

It was a black-and-white image of diggers toiling in a muddy gold mine that first drew filmmaker Wim Wenders to the…

In 2000, writer-director Michael Almereyda took on the best of William Shakespeare, transposing the seminal tragedy H…

The kidnapping of Dutch businessman and brewing company CEO Freddy Heineken (surely not a Pabst Blue Ribbon guy)…

With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new…