Daily Archives: July 10, 2021

Next Screening? Nic Cage wants his “Pig” back

In my mind, and perhaps in yours, I saw Cage going all John Wick in this “Truffle Hunters” tale. You don’t mess with a man’s truffle hunting pig. No-sir. As someone who makes it a point to watch everything the … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Jason Mamoa goes to war with Big Pharma and his “Sweet Girl”

Best thing about Jason Mamoa taking on Aquaman? He gets into a much better class of B-movies. Fun actor, great presence, wonderful big screen bad ass.

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Movie Review: Friends film a dead colleague’s long-planned vampire movie — “Holy Beasts”

“Holy Beasts (“La Fiera y la Fiesta)” is a movie about making a movie, an “art film” about old friends gathering to make a murdered filmmaker’s long-planned dream project in his native Santo Domingo. Geraldine Chaplin plays the aged actress … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Maori “Cousins” search for their lost kin

No movie I’ve seen this year has hit me harder than “Cousins.” This heartfelt, emotionally wrenching story set among New Zealand’s indigenous Maori is poetry on screen, a compact saga of one extended family’s history and the lost cousin that … Continue reading

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