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Calling someone “singular” much like “iconic” is something that nowadays is so overused that it’s become moot. However, both of those words actually describe Julio Torres, the 37-year-old writer, actor, director, comedian, who has one of the most remarkable and dizzying minds creating art. His comedy is surreal and silly with a dash of sadness.…

2020’s “The Ghost of Tsushima” was a surprising highlight during the pandemic summer, a game so inspired by cinematic language that it had a mode named after Akira Kurosawa. Four years later, “The Rise of the Ronin” will be compared to that hit game and come up consistently short. To be fair, “Ronin” takes place…

Harrison Ford walks through Union Station, doubling as police headquarters, as the camera comes to meet him, disappearing behind a dusty, trash covered roof, and then finding him at the open door to a man’s office. Ford’s been picked up on some important errand, the kind that interrupted his lunch in the teeming Chinatown eatery…

As soon as we meet Laura, we suspect she’s up to no good. She’s a crucial peripheral character in “Sleeping Dogs,” a “Memento”-like thriller in which retired homicide detective Roy (Russell Crowe), who is in the grips of Alzheimer’s, decides to revisit a past case, worried that he may have sent the wrong man to…