Monthly Archives: June 2021

Something’s eating at Charlie. He’s working on this house at all hours, sawing and shoveling and whatnot. The phone rings incessantly, but he won’t answer. He’s always popping in his ear buds and tuning out the world. With his sister … Continue reading →

“Sweet and Sour” is a Korean romantic fantasy that isn’t remotely as cute and clever as those who made it seem to think it is. It’s a standard-issue “meet cute” romance about a plump nerd who falls hard for the … Continue reading →

Whatever hardcore Stephen King fans get out of “Lisey’s Story,” with its suggestions of a writer’s supernatural powers and “visions,” haunted childhoods aging into crippling adulthoods and a post-mortem “bool (treasure) hunt” as the last gasp of a great love … Continue reading →

For years, whenever “M*AS*H,” popped up as I was channel surfing, I’d check to see where we were in the story, and often rewatch a big chunk of it. Robert Altman’s breakthrough film, the one that taught us what “Altmanesque” … Continue reading →

June 15 this one streams.

“Take Me Somewhere Nice” is a deadpan Bosnian/Dutch road dramedy adrift in the aimlessness of youth. So it’s not about the haphazard, clumsy and unhurried physical “journey” that our heroine undertakes. It’s more about a restless age and a rootless … Continue reading →

The Battle of Britain is one of those “finest hour” pieces of British history that almost instantly passed into legend, and has proven irresistible to filmmakers over the decades. When Winston Churchill intoned that “Never in the field of human … Continue reading →

Looking back, I think that two movies shaped and/or reinforced my views on “the criminal mind,” the folks who rob, cheat, vandalize and threaten as if they were born to it. “Donnie Brasco” (1998) set in stone my hunch that … Continue reading →

There’s a touching moment near the end of “Dancing Queens,” the new Swedish dramedy about a young female dancer who sneaks into a drag troupe. Dylan (Molly Nutley) gets to dance a well-choreographed and photographed duet in a modern dance … Continue reading →

A memory researcher hunts his mind for the one that got away, a great lost love, in this Aug. 20 release.