Monthly Archives: March 2020

Not sure if this “Hoosiers” ish high school basketball will do anything for Affleck. No reviews up, hiding it until the last minute. That worked for “Invisible Man.” Is this another late winter sleeper? Let’s see.

“Beasts of the Southern Wild” writer-director Benh Zeitlin gained glory, honors ( three Oscar nominations) and filmmaking capital from that 2012 indie jewel. And he knew just what he wanted to spend that capital on. He’d make his version of … Continue reading →

Haley Bennett lays it all out there in “Swallow,” a quietly disturbing, hard-to-watch psychological drama about an unhappy woman in a controlling marriage whose unhappiness manifests itself in the compulsive disorder, pica. And even if this dark film hunts for … Continue reading →

A new apartment, a suicide cult connection. Looks wacky and dark, with Taika Waititi, Kate Micucci and other proven laughs in the cast. Finally earning release?

Olivia Coleman Maya Rudolph and you recognized Danny McBride as adult voices in the trailer for this Sept. animated comedy. A family road trip to bond with the cell addict daughter as she starts college, interrupted by future tech. Note … Continue reading →

What an unalloyed delight “Emma.” is. As “Emma” always is, and indeed, as most Jane Austen adaptations are. Unless you try to add zombies. This time, Anya Taylor-Joy of “Thoroughbreds” and “Glass” has the title role, and turns her big … Continue reading →

Anime films based on popular manga are the ultimate filmgoing “Stranger in a Strange Land” experience. They’re an alien movie outing that doesn’t abide by normal rules of plot, logic and story and an animated experience which you can’t measure … Continue reading →

“Mistaken” is a story of one woman’s torment in the weeks and months after 9/11. Laila Besheer was interrogated repeatedly by the F.B.I. after the hijackings, once grabbed and grilled in an airport basement office for hours — while pregnant … Continue reading →

Ian Daniels directed this film about environmental racism…in Canada, too.

There’s something about a real-world global pandemic that takes some of the “fun” out of such dystopian tales on the big screen. But “Only” is too good to dismiss, just escapist enough to make us forget “Hell, I could tune … Continue reading →