Monthly Archives: November 2021

Everybody’s a critic, or so I’m often told. So the pre-meme old saying goes. Especially when it comes to movies. On any given weekend night in AnyCinePlex America, you can hear the debates in the lobby, the restrooms or walking … Continue reading →

A tip of the cowboy hat to Netflix, for picking up this Chickasaw Nation-financed drama and offering it during Native American Heritage Month. “Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher,” is about a 19th century member of the Chickasaw Nation who became a … Continue reading →

It’s the story of the James-Younger Gang told in stately, sweeping vistas, star charisma, cold-blooded stares and bursts of epic Peckinpah violence. “The Long Riders” came out in 1980, in the middle of director Walter Hill’s run of genre classics … Continue reading →

That headline’s dead-on accurate and ridiculously misleading. It makes this indie, arty, obscurant drama from Mexico sound like something it’s not, which is interesting. Editor and first-time feature writer-director David Torres sets out to tell a simple, sad story about … Continue reading →

“Zero to Hero” is a heartwarming story of a paralympian, the obstacles he has to overcome and the mother behind him every tentative step, all the way to the finish line. This Around the World with Netflix offering is about … Continue reading →

The debut feature from writer-director Bennet De Brabandere was titled “Cherrypicker” for a while and renamed “Ankle Biters” for release. But while he cleverly-retitled this story of a hockey goon who runs afoul of his girlfriend’s four 7-and-under daughters, he … Continue reading →

Writer, wit and craftsman, science fiction icon and cultural iconoclast, Kurt Vonnegut‘s long and storied career saw him climb from penny-pinching obscurity to celebrity, wealth and fame, a novelist whose every book remains in print and whose pithiest remarks have … Continue reading →

Today’s “Around the World with Netflix” outing is a gritty, suspenseful Brazilian drama about human trafficking and what the trafficked do at the end of that ugly road. Alexandre Moratto’s “7 Prisoners” takes us for a ride — the same … Continue reading →

A sexy period piece (1924) with Oscar winners Olivia Colman and Colin Firth as the employers who are away leaving Odessa Young to carry on with Josh O’Connor. It’s based on a Graham Swift novel, and features one other Oscar … Continue reading →

Say what you want, but I LIKE this version of Ellie Kemper. The ever-sweetly-smiling plucky ditz of “The Office” and “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” goes kind of, well, bad-ass for “Home Sweet Home Alone.” And that’s fun because in this … Continue reading →