Monthly Archives: December 2021

April 8, this one opens in a cinema near you.

Well, Lady Gaga got some love, voters remembered Jessica Chastain’s Tammy Faye Baker turn. And they think “Dune” and “Power of the Dog” are best pic worthy. Wait, these guys lost their TV deal in a corruption, racism and sexism … Continue reading →

MovieNation, spreading cinema throughout the land, one DVD, one poorly framed pic and one small town or city library at a time. This year, I’ve donated DVDs to libraries in West Va., Va., NC, SC, Ga. and scattered corners of … Continue reading →

Well, this is an unexpected pleasure, an Oz-wise kids’ comedy with wit, slang and a little edge. “Back to the Outback” is an Australian “Madagascar,” an “escape from the zoo” comedy that leans into the continent/country’s reputation for having more … Continue reading →

Time-proven people-in-peril horror formulas cross borders and cultures. That’s true in “Roh,” a somewhat effective tale of terror set in the forests of Malaysia. That’s where a mother (Farah Ahmad), her tween daughter (Mhia Farhana) and younger son (Harith Haziq) … Continue reading →

Although Shaun and his fellow Mossy Bottom Farm sheep will never replace Wallace & Gromit as my favorite Aardman characters, they get themselves into a fine mess in “Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas.” Yes, basically every Shaun story, … Continue reading →

A little of the absurdist madness of 1960s cinema lives on in “Last Words,” a sort of “Waiting for Goddard” End Times tale about the last people on post-apocalyptic Earth making a movie about themselves. Based on a novel by … Continue reading →

Cristovam sits, blank-faced but concentrating, as he’s lectured in the boss’s office. He works in a dairy. They’re having to cut back. The country is in “crisis” and when we figure out that country is Brazil, we get it. But … Continue reading →

Hey now, that’s not cricket. But it’s pretty much par for the course. You make a moon-eyed youth romance, it’s popular enough to inspire a sequel. Even in Italy that means you end with a (spoiler alert) “to be continued.” … Continue reading →

We meet him hitchhiking down a cobble-stoned street, then asking a young woman if he can borrow her bike. He just needs to go home and feed his dog. “It’s just down here a little bit, on the left,” he … Continue reading →