Monthly Archives: October 2021

Why would actor, writer and director Miles Doleac (“Hallowed Ground,” “The Dinner Party”) set his latest horror fiasco in Der Black Forest of Deutschland? Did he meet folks he’d eventually cast in it at a continuing education class, Conversational German? … Continue reading →

The French leader, WWII hero and long-serving president of post-war France is remembered in his first blush of fame, trying to keep France in the fight while badgering Churchill for aid and standing in London after the French surrender in … Continue reading →

“She Paradise” arrives in North America just as the first snows hit — mid-November. A little island patois and Jamaican music, post-Marley, and some seriously sexy dancers.

Todd Haynes, director of the Dylan-of-Many-Faces biography “I’m and Not There” and glam/punk appreciation “Velvet Goldmine,” isn’t interested in spoon-feeding anybody a history of “The Velvet Underground.” Haynes figures if you show up for it (Apple TV+ has it), you … Continue reading →

Neve Campbell had me at “I’ve been through this…a lot.” Next year. Looks like mostly an homage to the original. And it looks like it works.

Denis Villeneuve’s film of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” looks exactly as it should on the big screen — epic in scale, baroque in design, fatalistic in outlook, grim in its life-or-death stakes. But then the reason we know what it’s supposed … Continue reading →

Worms and Chalamet and Aquaman and memories of Lynch. Here we go.

It’s not stopped, it’s not gone away. They’ve just gotten nice cinematography for this latest twice on the venerable franchise. “Next of Kin” comes to Paramount Plus Oct 29. Theaters too?

There’s a rich Hollywood tradition of glib treatment of the mentally ill — movies with the medically disastrous “all they really need is love” message. The simplistic melodrama “My Brother, My Sister (Mio fratello mia sorella)” flirts with giving us … Continue reading →

Eliza Coupe, Chris Baker and Eric Roberts star in this bit of murder camp, opening Oct 22.