Daily Archives: August 10, 2022

As 30 year-old whose belief that she’s “a 70 year-old woman trapped in the body of a 30 year-old” is tested out via “past life regression,” Diane Keaton shrieks and sputters, totters on towering high-heel thigh-high boots and tumbles into … Continue reading →

You know what we call a simple, primal, stranded-at-a-great height thriller like “Fall?” Pretty damned good for what it is. Melodramatic and nerve-wracking, predictable and still jolting, this B-movie directed by Scott Mann (“Heist,””Final Score”) toys with us and plays … Continue reading →

It wasn’t a terrible idea. James Ponsoldt, my idea of the quintessential “indie” filmmaker, who makes character-driven dramas such as “The Spectacular Now” and “The End of the Tour,” takes a stab at bringing us a girls’ coming of age … Continue reading →

A triumph of tone more than anything else, Perry Blackshear’s “When I Consume You” is “The Fisher King” reimagined as a bleak horror tale bathed in abuse and mental illness. Desperately poor co-dependent siblings struggle to forget their traumatized childhoods … Continue reading →