Monthly Archives: November 2022

A sublime, subdued performance by Bill Nighy is reason enough to bask in the glory that is “Living,” a lovely period piece about a civil servant who questions what purpose his life has served when he’s told he has six … Continue reading →

He responded to a poster soliciting a new lead singer for a punk band. Despite ripping through “Beat on the Brat” in the audition, he gets a hard pass. Maybe it was the instrument he used as accompaniment to that … Continue reading →

“Deborah” is a somewhat deflating “reunion” comedy with a sci-fi twist. In a genre of films where “taking stock of my life” and “what might have been” are the asked and unanswered questions of one and all, “Deborah” has a … Continue reading →

Selena Gomez has a hit, critically-acclaimed TV series — “Only Murders in the Building” — film and TV work lined-up with her taking on producing responsibilities, and a pop music career that shows little sign of winding down as she … Continue reading →

The lady of the house has been through trauma or some sort. It’s wrecking her sleep and gutting her short term memory. All the medication in the world is no help. Then Diana shows up. Christine doesn’t remember hiring a … Continue reading →

Mustafa stands on his mother’s apartment balcony chatting by phone with his wife and children. He can almost see them across the way. We gather that the highlight, for the three kids — 9-and-under — comes at the end of … Continue reading →

Equal parts funny and forlorn, with a smattering of the violence that always been a sort of Emerald Isle background noise, “The Banshees of Inisherin” is Martin McDonagh’s most Irish film, because it’s a lot like Ireland itself. Set in … Continue reading →

Disney+ is where you’ll find this Foundation Myth take on how The Mouse in the House the ho Built was created. Looks good. Nov. 18.

If you see just one Inuit kids fend off tentacled alien invaders thriller this year, make it “Slash/Back,” an above-the-Arctic Circle genre pic in the “Attack the Block” tradition. It’s a more good-natured-than-good Canadian production about a village beset by … Continue reading →

Intimate in scale, narrow in focus, “Mars One” is a melodrama of the “kitchen sink drama” school. A Brazilian submission for the Best International Feature prize at the Oscars, it takes us into the lives of a family of four, … Continue reading →