Daily Archives: June 24, 2022

Movie Preview: Thor gets the Band Together for “Love & Thunder”

The rest of the “team” he assembles to take down the great evil menacing the universe makes its bow. Looks fun, and by July 8 we’ll all need a laugh and a reason to duck into a cold cineplex.

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Preview: Thor gets the Band Together for “Love & Thunder”

Movie Review: Life in Service of the “Good Madam” has supernatural consequences in this South African Thriller

“Good Madam” is a tight, lightly-chilling horror tale from South Africa, a parable of a housekeeper and what “life in service” can mean, in a supernatural sense, in the former Apartheid state. And how this relatively simple story has twelve … Continue reading

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Review: Life in Service of the “Good Madam” has supernatural consequences in this South African Thriller

Movie Preview: Strangers Tess and Keith meet at an AirBnB from hell — “Barbarian”

Labor Day, all you people will see why ol’Rodg always stays in hotels.

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Preview: Strangers Tess and Keith meet at an AirBnB from hell — “Barbarian”

Movie Review: Survivors Face the Sad Aftermath of Gun Violence — “Peace in the Valley”

Movies that take us beyond showing gun violence as entertainment are rare. It’s not just the immediate, factual consequences of what happens when a human being is shot, the damage done and the trauma of the moment that we rarely … Continue reading

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Movie Review: Survivors Face the Sad Aftermath of Gun Violence — “Peace in the Valley”

Documentary Review: An Afro-Latina filmmaker takes an unblinking look at herself and her family in “Beba”

The documentary as autobiography has been around for a while, with filmmakers like Ross McElwee (“Sherman’s March”) turning “personal essay” films into exercises in family history and a soul searching exploration of one’s place in it. Filmmaker and sometime actress … Continue reading

Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news | Comments Off on Documentary Review: An Afro-Latina filmmaker takes an unblinking look at herself and her family in “Beba”