Monthly Archives: September 2019

A mother loses custody of her two a daughters, with cause. She is mentally ill. How she copes is the subject of “An Audience of Chairs,” a Canadian drama that is the quintessence of “fall cinema.” It’s serious.

Ruffalo is a West “By God” Virginia lawyer working for Big Corps out of state, when he takes on the case of a farmer (Bill Camp) losing cattle to chemical poisoning of the water supply. Tim Robbins as a villain, … Continue reading →

You’ve got a Chinese mob soldier named “One-Armed Wang” with a grudge. You can guess what about. There’s a drug-addicted heroine who hallucinates middle aged men dancing in their tidy whiteys. The toughest Chinese assassin is, well, transgender. The hero … Continue reading →

“Zeroville” is a surreal fantasia on Hollywood filmed in 2014, in limbo when its distributor went bankrupt in 2016. Based on a Steve Erikson novel, it has morphed, on the shelf, into a veritable James Franco time capsule, a movie … Continue reading →

“Fiddler on the Roof” is not everybody’s favorite musical. You see enough community theater or scholastic productions of it performed by folks who figure Jewish caricatures are the way to go with their performances, or that they can (in one … Continue reading →

“The Public” is premised on a simple fact of modern urban, and even suburban life. Public libraries have become, as writer-director-actor Emilio Estevez has acknowledged, “de facto homeless shelters.” Senior citizens and cheapskates who prefer to borrow books rather than … Continue reading →

Here at Maitland’s Enzian Theater for the beginning of the annual Global Peace Film Festival, docs and features about peace and civil rights issues. It runs through the week at venues all over Central Florida. Sept. 16-22. An exhibit of … Continue reading →

The world’s largest excavator, or digger, chews through a wall of earth and rock that was once the German town of Immerath. A young man, one of the thousands of residents of the Dandora Landfill in Kenya, raps to hear … Continue reading →

It looks so easy on a map. Just a few inches, or centimeters, get you from here to there. Even if you wholly comprehend the miles — or kilometers — they translate to, modern Western life has conditioned us to … Continue reading →

You knew he was a goner the moment that damning clip showed up. That wasn”t a lapse, ancient history or anything you can explain away. That was a vile bigot comfortable in long held prejudices. Via The New York Times … Continue reading →