Monthly Archives: January 2022

“The Translator” has made a nice life for himself in Australia, using his multi-lingual skills for government entities and journalists, married and, since he’s from Syria, relieved to have escaped a past of justifiable paranoia and danger. But when the … Continue reading →

Labeling “Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman” as “trash” gives this fictionalized, sensationalized and generally incompetent take on America’s most infamous female serial killer credit it doesn’t deserve. “Trash” suggests there might be something “fun” to it. This pseudo-serious “reclaiming” of Wuornos … Continue reading →

“Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched” is a documentary about the history of “folk horror,” a film of almost breathtaking thoroughness in exploring what that term means, the shared pagan stories that span the globe and inspired it, and the movies … Continue reading →

Stumbling across any Akira Kurosawa film you’ve missed is an unexpected delight, and the film noir “Stray Dog” has the added pleasure of being an early showcase of the director, his muse — Toshiro Mifune — and his other rep … Continue reading →

These movies ran their course, and then some, and then some more, in theaters. But Tyler Perry’s funniest creation still gets another shot, this time on a streaming service. Cash that Netflix check, T.P. “A Madea Homecoming” streams Feb. 25.

A helpful ghost can take a man back to the moment his mother died, fifty years before. Feb. 18, from Yellow Veil.

Today’s Around the World with Netflix outing is a novel experience — for me, anyway. It’s a Turkish tearjerker. Sentimental and often uncertainly so, “My Father’s Violin (Babamin Kemani)” touches on issues of abuse and poverty, family schisms and family … Continue reading →

Roger DVDSeed spreads a little more cinema to libraries far and wide today, with a MovieNation donation — thanks to IndiePix — of this recent Harriet Tubman documentary. The beneficiary? The downtown library in historic Georgetown, SC, on the Low … Continue reading →

“The Midnight Swim” is a modestly-spooky example of that mumblecore unicorn — “mumblecore horror.” It’s a talk-talk-talk indie drama about the lack of closure when a mother drowns and no body was found, about mythology and reincarnation, all set at … Continue reading →

Got to hand it to Well-Go USA. They’re going HARD against the grain, grabbing and releasing this Russian WWII agitprop. Sure, Putin’s doing the over-compensating short guy “Give us the SUDETENLAND, um, UKRAINE” dance and bringing NATO back together in … Continue reading →