Daily Archives: September 6, 2022

Awards season Oscar bait with a top drawer supporting cast for the Jewish kid who learns about racism via family history and what a classmate and friend is subjected to. November.

Netflix has this Oct. 7. Based on a best seller, intriguing, promising? Ok.

“Saloum” is a distinctly West African thriller about drug trade-connected mercenaries who escape from a military coup only to face their biggest test in a nature preserve in Saloum, Senegal. It’s crackling good long before it turns supernatural. And their … Continue reading →

“Hold Me Tight” is a beautifully mysterious French tale of grief, guilt, regret and madness. Adapting a play by Claudine Galea, actor-turned-director Mathieu Amalric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”) finds exquisite melancholy in a story of a family that’s … Continue reading →

A family with a daughter deep into Wednesday Addams cosplaying shows up in a small midwestern city, and people start dying. Suicides, deaths that don’t look like suicides, heart attacks, always with the little girl giving somebody the evil eye, … Continue reading →

No, this one doesn’t star Kurt Russell and has nothing to do with hockey. This “Miracle” is a Romanian thriller involving cops and a nun. Pretty good, too. Is Mims, Fla. ready to read Romanian subtitles? Let’s hope so. MovieNation, … Continue reading →

Nothing like watching a “smart house runs amok” thriller on the morning of your latest data breach (Thanks, Netflix) to put you in the mood. “Margaux” is the story of a “Siri” with serious issues, and it goes like this. … Continue reading →