Monthly Archives: June 2020

  If Charles Dickens was alive today, would he try his hand at being a socially conscious fiction writer in film? That’s the intriguing question posed by “Run with the Hunted,” a gritty near miss of a B-movie about abused … Continue reading →

Art and oddness, dash of cute and a Viking funeral in the land of the midnight sun. Quiver will release this one soon.

“Mr. Jones” is a story of three journalists. One persistently and somewhat naively stumbled into a genocidal scandal of world-shaking proportions. One tried to cover it up from the pages of one of the world’s great newspapers, and became one … Continue reading →

Allison Brie and Dan Stevens star in another vacation “rental” house from hell story. More conventional, not supernatural. Love the music and the visual chills in this Dave Franco directed thriller.

On television? No. On HBO.

A top drawer writer/director, solid A-, B+ list talent and a haunted house seemingly designed by Maurice Escher class up the mildly-scary thriller, “You Should Have Left.” It has an A-picture gloss and sophistication often missing from the genre. The … Continue reading →

A teenage girl’s coming of age story shines a light on Korean sexism, educational Darwinism and the afterthought that girls seem to be there in “House of Hummingbird,” a sweet and forlorn “year in the life” drama. The debut feature … Continue reading →

From Variety — AMC Theatres Reverses Course, Will Require Guests to Wear Masks https://t.co/HHdhXmlp04 https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1274027621521797120?s=20

Netflix dips its toes into that most Japanese of film forms, anime, with “A Whisker Away,” a charming, whimsical fantasy that you’d never guess came from the country that gave us “Hello Kitty.” It’s a body-switch tale about a manic … Continue reading →