Monthly Archives: December 2020

“Rose Island” is a lightly amusing if somewhat labored Italian account of one of the oddest offshoots of 1960s explorations of the limits of “freedom.” “Micronations” they’re called, and a few bold experiments of this sort — creating your own … Continue reading →

“The Last Blockbuster” is a nostalgic documentary about how we used to find movies to watch in the Olden Days. We’d make our way down to the corner video store, browse the aisles and perhaps stumble across a buried treasure … Continue reading →

“News of the World” is a stately, almost old-fashioned Western saga about a widowed Civil War veteran trying to do right by one orphaned girl in 1870 Texas. There are hints of “The Searchers” in this quest to take a … Continue reading →

Let the healing begin! A divisive election, culture wars that separated a country into midwestern and southern cultists flirting with fascism, and everybody else led by “Broadway liberals,” and here’s a show aimed at putting a little tickle in the … Continue reading →

They don’t need an “experiment” to confirm what anybody of drinking age learns all too quickly — there’s “tipsy” and fun, “cute” drunk, “sloppy” (sentimental) inebriated and “mean” drunk. They can see it in their students, teenagers who cut loose … Continue reading →

The most ambitious holiday movie this year isn’t this Hallmark one or that animated one, a gay romance or a kiddie farce. It’s “Just Another Christmas” and it comes from Brazil, where it’s titled “Tudo Bem No Natal Que Vem.” … Continue reading →

A smart cookie on screen, now she’s taking a shot at directing. Taraji P. Henson will be making her feature directorial debut with “Two Faced,” which has nothing to do with the Batman universe. As the Hollywood Reporter tells us, … Continue reading →

The attack was brazen, and because it was captured on video and involved North Korea, it dominated the news for months back in 2017. The exiled brother of Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s latest dictator for life from the Kim Dynasty, … Continue reading →

“The Father” is as close to dementia as any of us would ever care to get. And yet, thanks to longevity that has turned recent generations into the longest-lived in history, it is touching more lives than ever. French playwright … Continue reading →

A deep bow, from the waist, for any actor who takes a flier on a crazy idea of a movie, on a nutty dreamer with a screen-written dream, on a cracked visionary with the unlikely name Adam Egypt Mortimer. That’s … Continue reading →