Monthly Archives: April 2020

Here’s a clever and righteous pitch from indie distributor Kino Lorber. They have the rights to the touching and acclaimed 2014 documentary, “The American Nurse.” And as nurses are now on the front lines of America’s and the world’s struggle … Continue reading →

An eerily beautiful long, foggy drive on an Icelandic spring morning opens “A White, White Day,” Iceland’s contender for this past year’s Best International (foreign language) Oscar. That drive ends with a Volvo wagon going through a guard rail — … Continue reading →

An introspective tale of a loner, a kid looking for his dad, with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and David Straithairn. Screenwriter Michael Milillo all but calls his work an “American classic” on IMDB. Gosh. Tempting karma, critical ridicule, etc. “In the … Continue reading →

“El Silencio es bienvenido” is an inscrutable parable about the trials of a family vacation punctuated with a mystery perhaps meant to deliver a “moral to the story.” The debut feature of Gabriela García Rivas doesn’t give us much. It … Continue reading →

April 24 on Netflix.

Is abortion like a hot new horror theme?“The Perished,”which is out this week, and now “The Unborn” — “coming soon.”

If this is where the Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg filmmaking team winds up, making gritty-jokey “Spenser” movies for Netflix, I’m fine with that. Tone counts for everything in action mysteries like this, and the team that made “Lone … Continue reading →

Olivia Munn is the big name from this side of the pond in this Britcom/Romcom. But Freida Pinto’s a big deal internationally, and Sam Claflin’s pretty high up in the name rec charts. Writer-director Dean Craig?He did “Death at a … Continue reading →

Lionsgate’s got a no-budget/no-name cast cult thriller in the making, here.

The opening image of “Bye Bye Germany” is of a three-legged dog, hopping out of a “Displaced Persons” repatriation camp in Frankfort months after the end of World War II. That’s the perfect metaphor for the story to be told … Continue reading →