Monthly Archives: March 2021

“And Breathe Normally” is about two women who arrived at their similar circumstances in vastly different ways, but who recognize the desperation they have in common. This Icelandic drama is about human migration, refugees, homelessness and the missteps that put … Continue reading →

Stylized, impressionistic and striking, “Bombay Rose” is a fanciful animated melodrama for adults, a tale of India’s past and present, with some of that past rendered into old fashioned Bollywood movie myth. A simple parable that’s a little hard to … Continue reading →

“The Vigil” is the most original, most chilling horror film of the new year. And let me hasten to add, it’s not even close. It’s a supernatural thriller set in an Orthodox Jewish community of New York, which is novelty … Continue reading →

“Long Live Rock,” a doc about the undying devotion of aging white folks to their favorite metal bands, is littered with tattoo stories, accident stories, mosh pit and crowd surfing tales and a few yarns that begin with “We were … Continue reading →

“My Beautiful Stutter” is a film about stuttering and stutterers viewed through the efforts of an organization trying to “put children in a place” where they love themselves, teaching them “I stutter, and it’s OK.” That organization is SAY, The … Continue reading →

That Hulu BeeGees documentary has A) reminded people of how they were or B) made Hollywood realize there are plenty of BeeGees fans kicking around out there. “Staying Alive.” ttps://twitter.com/Variety_Film/status/1369748783890755586?s=09

“My Salinger Year” is “The Devil Wears Prada,” set in a literary agency and with many of the rough edges rubbed off. Margaret Qualley, cleaned-up from her grubby Manson disciple of “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,” is our privileged young … Continue reading →

Actor turned director David S. Hogan gives us a C-movie that looks every inch an A-picture with “The Parish.” It may be that latest remix of a worn-out formula, with a “mystery” we’re two or three steps ahead of, first … Continue reading →

Whatever their place within German culture, film comedies exported from Germany are a relatively rare thing and another reason to buy into “Around the World With Netflix.” How else are we to know what Hollywood and recent history’s favorite villains … Continue reading →

When she coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe the callous, uncaring and otherwise inconsequential men and women who carried out The Holocaust and society’s ways of “normalizing” their actions, Hannah Arendt was seriously underestimating Hollywood’s response to … Continue reading →