Monthly Archives: April 2022

Today’s “Around the World with Netflix” film is a lot like its lead character, a young Amish man in search of his identity, his place in the world. “Rumspringa” follows this lad on that teenage walkabout amongst the sinful temptations … Continue reading →

A family haunted by suicides past and present wrestles with Camus’ “the only serious question in life” in “All My Puny Sorrows,” a somber and biting new adaptation of Miriam Toew’s book, filmed by the director of “Saint Ralph.” Two … Continue reading →

The repeated Russian invasions of Ukraine have resulted in several notable films that have looked at this “situation” through sad, angry and even ironic eyes. And many of them have been acquired by Film Movement so that we can see … Continue reading →

The striking scenery of Mauritius is the chief selling point of “Honeymoon With My Mother,” a downbeat romantic comedy that tends toward dull. It’s as if the film’s frothy opening — a wedding interrupted by a romantic who hurtles into … Continue reading →

“The Polka King” is one of those titles you scroll by because you’re sure you’ve seen it, even if you haven’t. It stars Jack Black as a loveable, generous but criminal con artist, a real person who used other people’s … Continue reading →

The concept of “public intellectual” never enjoyed the status in the United States that it’s long had elsewhere. We can label a Noam Chomsky, Betty Friedan or Henry Louis Gates as such, but even they’re not venerated the way a … Continue reading →

Turning the dark children’s fantasy “The Little Mermaid” into science fiction seems kind of pointless, but as they say in Japan, “Anime’s gonna anime.” The Japanese WIT studio works primarily in TV. But when Warner Brothers Animation gets a commission … Continue reading →

Boy, if Disney really wants to get Wuhan Ron’s “Don’t Say Gay” Goat, they should buy him a subscription to Hulu. With “Crush,” Hulu serves up the gayest gay vulgarian heroine in a gay fantasia of a high school ever…since … Continue reading →

There’s a lot of good stuff to chew on in this Hollywood Reporter take on Netflix hitting the wall, this time from a content quality and quantity point of view. They greenlit an insane number of series and movies, threw … Continue reading →

Seems like a week doesn’t go by when somebody isn’t serving up a fresh batch of New Orleans music and New Orleans musicians in documentary form. So for everybody who missed the earlier takes, and who can’t wait for the … Continue reading →