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Daily Archives: June 14, 2019
Documentary Review: Descendants of Holocaust survivors go “Back to the Fatherland”
How do you make a Holocaust documentary that fails to move and struggles to connect on any level? As “Back to the Fatherland” ably illustrates, you start by stripping away most of the context. You make no effort to include … Continue reading
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Preview, It’s back to The Overlook Hotel for “Doctor Sleep” — shades of “The Shining”
This couldn’t be “The Shining” sequel nobody really asked for, or could it? Horror editor turned director Mike Flanagan adapted Stephen King’s “Shining” and Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, the old Overlook — haunted as hell, still — and a November … Continue reading
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