Monthly Archives: August 2020

Look for this drama on Sept. 29.

“The Argument” is an indie comedy built on the frame that supported that favorite of community theaters, far and wide — “Noises Off.” Show us a frazzled, rattled and unsatisfactory story — one that leads to an “argument,” in this … Continue reading →

A British period piece that mixes 1840s fossil hunting and same sex romance? Smashing!

The Oscar winning Hawkins goes medicated, depressed and possibly in love for this Brt dramedy. https://youtu.be/NiqwtgZzbds

Let’s see what all the fuss is about, shall we? “Tenet,” much shuffled about on the release slate, opens Sept. 3.

Netflix has her number.

Here’s the buy-in moment for “1BR,” a “forced-to-join-a-cult” thriller given a healthy dose of horror movie torture porn. New tenant Sarah has awoken after a few sleepless nights of banging noises have kept her awake in her (supposedly) one bedroom … Continue reading →

Deadpan, surreal and pandemically prophetic, Tsai Ming-liang’s “The Hole (Dong)” didn’t make much of a splash, globally, when it premiered in 1999. A droll fantasy-musical about loneliness, plumbing and a virus spread by cockroaches who makes people act like cockroaches, … Continue reading →

On August 11, 2014, the world got a bit sadder and a lot less funny. That’s the day we learned Robin Williams, the great, mercurial talent of his generation, had died. His death by suicide added to the shock, until … Continue reading →

This portrait of the black male experience comes to the Peacock streamer in early Sept. https://www.blackboysfilm.com/trailer